How to Use manhole in a Sentence

manhole

noun
Definition of manholenext
  • The sewage is dumped into pipes there, through the manholes.
    — Brittany Wallman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 2 Nov. 2017
  • The trucks suck sewage out of manholes and drive to parts of the sewer system that aren’t already full.
    — Brittany Wallman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Costello said the repairs will include manhole covers as well as new paving.
    — Linda Gandee/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 22 Oct. 2017
  • Sewage lapped over the top of manhole covers, streaming into the roads after heavy rains.
    — Brittany Wallman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 23 Jan. 2018
  • City workers took the manhole covers off to try to mitigate some of the flooding.
    — Mohammed Kloub, chicagotribune.com, 26 Dec. 2017
  • When sewer pipes back up, wastewater overflows, often from manholes.
    — Emma Sarran Webster, Allure, 13 Feb. 2018
  • The system is building a new fiber-optic network, but not every pay phone site is close enough to a manhole to connect to it.
    — Keith Williams, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2018
  • The building is such a part of New Orleans, in fact, that manhole covers all over town are emblazoned with its name.
    — Susan Fales-Hill, Town & Country, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Video emerged of adults removing manhole covers and lowering children down in a desperate attempt to escape a ballistic missile hurtling their way.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 13 Jan. 2018
  • Within five years, the Clark Iron Foundry, which his father owned and which made manhole covers for Philadelphia streets, had failed.
    — Bonnie L. Cook, Philly.com, 30 Jan. 2018
  • One unconfirmed Twitter posting showed a resident lowering children through a manhole in a sidewalk.
    — Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2018
  • The young man in black climbed down the manhole’s footholds and flicked on a penlight.
    — Suzanne Sataline, Quartz, 30 Nov. 2019
  • The manhole fire caused smoke to drift across the downtown area, Weaver said.
    — Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2022
  • About two-thirds of the way up the block in the near, downtown lane was a manhole cover.
    — Richard Brookhiser, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Ravi Lala, 47, helped one of the Eversource men in the manhole.
    — Camilo Fonseca, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2022
  • He had been pulled into the drainage system and emerged out of a manhole.
    — Topher Sanders, ProPublica, 9 Dec. 2021
  • The man climbs out of a manhole, as if sneaking into her dream.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 15 Jan. 2021
  • That’s the sound of someone stepping on the manhole cover above.
    — Ingrid Rojas Contreras, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Same for the many drains and manhole covers on the innermost lane.
    — Diana Budds, Curbed, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Once inside, Greene could see the sewer pipes that run in and out of the manhole and spotted Snowball in the pipe that runs to the street.
    — Sharon Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 11 May 2020
  • Loennecker assisted the children out of the tube and up and out of the manhole.
    — Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Milton Berle’s car stalled over a manhole cover, which then blew with the force of a geyser and ruined his car.
    — Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Tire marks were shown on the grass, at one point crossing over a storm water manhole just a few feet from crash site.
    — Kim Hyatt, Star Tribune, 26 July 2021
  • Block and Philpot streets were home to the Lacy Foundry, which made street lamp poles and manhole covers, and to other plants that turned out paint and shellac.
    — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 7 Apr. 2018
  • So, all these manhole covers were pulled off in this alley.
    — CBS News, 23 Apr. 2022
  • The crash took place quite quickly after the men left the driveway, the car running off the road, jumping a curb, hitting a manhole and then a tree.
    — Brad Templeton, Forbes, 10 May 2021
  • The video from the rescue shows the firefighters using straps to pull the deer – who has a blanket over his face — out of the sewer through a manhole near the storm drain.
    — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Behind the fence there were a few telephone poles, a small circle of concrete in the ground and a metal manhole cover that led down to the bunker.
    — Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2022
  • Between the large gaping holes and the sunken manhole covers, my suspension and shock absorbers will not have a very long life.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 17 May 2024
  • Over the years, the iconic meme has been used to comment on world events and pop culture news, while the image also appears on manhole covers in Sato’s home city of Sakura.
    — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 24 May 2024

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'manhole.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: