How to Use sewage in a Sentence
sewage
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The first of them was the sewage running in the street.
—Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 24 July 2023
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The sky cracks, streams of light pour over the busted sewage pipe, and then the sky dumps rain.
—Hazlitt, 29 May 2024
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The landmark system removed 95% of the bacteria from the city’s sewage and 90% of the solids.
—Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2024
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The issue is that with so many new toilets, the sewage needs to go somewhere.
—Oliver Franklin-Wallis, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2023
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Cracked walls, mold, sewage backups, even the risk of electric shock.
—Chris Hacker, CBS News, 14 Sep. 2023
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Once landed, a truck connects to the tank, draws all the waste out and takes it to the local sewage system.
—Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 8 Mar. 2023
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But in the meantime, residents still have to deal with sewage spillage.
—Josh Feldman, NBC News, 1 Oct. 2023
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Rio Verde Foothills doesn't have a sewage system or water mains.
—Peter Weber, The Week, 16 Jan. 2023
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There were fires and a burst sewage pipe, forcing employees to wade through waste.
—Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 16 Aug. 2023
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The places were affordable because there weren’t any perks: no sewage, no gas.
—Curbed, 23 Dec. 2023
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The researchers stress that this does not mean people are getting sick from sewage in sea spray aerosol.
—Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 3 Mar. 2023
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To this day, when there are heavy rains and too much water flows into the sewers, raw sewage flows into the canal.
—Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2024
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Al-Barbari said food and water are scarce, and his tent was even flooded with sewage.
—Zoe Magee, ABC News, 10 Dec. 2023
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My neighbor’s sink overflowed with sewage a few weeks ago, bubbling over the rim of the sink and leaking onto the floor.
—Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 21 Feb. 2023
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One quibble: When the waters are calm a distinct aroma, the area smells a little like sewage.
—Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
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At some moments, Collins’ efforts to hold truth to power seemed akin to trying to stop a burst sewage pipe with a wine cork.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 11 May 2023
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The new legislation could cost bosses who spill sewage in rivers, lakes, and seas their bonus.
—Alan Murray, Fortune, 12 Feb. 2024
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If there's more rain than the ground or sewage can absorb, that extra water flows downhill — a flash flood.
—Cara Korte, CBS News, 11 July 2023
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The tree removal is part of an effort to clean up sewage overflows from the Pleasant Run waterway that runs through the park.
—Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Feb. 2024
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What’s causing the sewage and bacteria in the Missouri River?
—Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 2 July 2024
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The boys had traveled 1,500 feet into the sewage system, officials said.
—Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2023
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There was no information about how sewage made its way into the ocean.
—Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2024
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However, odors from the sewage are released outside during the flight.
—Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 8 Mar. 2023
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The Milwaukee River, which cut through the heart of downtown, was a dumping grounds for litter, runoff — even sewage.
—Genevieve Redsten, Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2023
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The wall had holes, which were likely used as part of sewage or rainwater systems, experts said.
—Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 23 Feb. 2024
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Money to treat sewage from Mexico and clean up San Diego’s beaches.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2023
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In the global north, sewage is a problem that many of us assumed was more or less fixed in Victorian times.
—Oliver Franklin-Wallis, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2023
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And officials may need to constantly surveil sewage or airports for signs of new pathogens.
—Markus Anderljung and Paul Scharre, Foreign Affairs, 14 Aug. 2023
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The slide shifts the land so much that most utilities can’t be buried underground, so the city has installed an eyesore: an above-ground sewage line that runs along the side of the road.
—Jack Flemmingstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2023
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Besides security, one of the biggest items in the Paris budget was a $1.5 billion multi-year cleanup of the Seine, polluted for decades by the flow of industrial waste and sewage.
—Scott M. Reid, Orange County Register, 19 July 2024
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