How to Use storm drain in a Sentence

storm drain

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  • How did a wild turkey the size of a rose bush fit through a six-inch hole and get trapped in a storm drain on the South Side?
    — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Apr. 2023
  • In the clip, two women are with the dog, who is only able to peek his head partially out of the storm drain.
    — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 29 Nov. 2023
  • In her video taken of the event, firefighters could be seen using metal tools to open up the storm drain on the edge of the street.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 2 June 2023
  • This can be a storm drain, retention pond, or simply a safe spot away from your home.
    — Kamron Sanders, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Any contamination that goes down the storm drain can end up in the ocean full of surfers and sea turtles.
    — Joshua Partlow, Scott Wilson and Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Aug. 2023
  • That caller reported that people involved in the crash had fled, and that one had thrown a gun down a storm drain.
    — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 7 July 2024
  • Officers responded to the area and found smoke coming from a storm drain.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 14 June 2024
  • The 10-year-old boy who was swept away in a storm drain in Tennessee on May 8 has died, according to his father.
    — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 19 May 2024
  • It is suspected the spill was caused when a frozen water pipe in the building burst and washed some chemicals into the storm drain.
    — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 23 Feb. 2024
  • One storm drain on 16th was almost completely filled with trash, a muddled pile topped with corn and bananas.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Maui firefighter Tre Evans-Dumaran was swept into a storm drain and started to drown.
    — Molly Walsh | Mwalsh@cleveland.com, cleveland, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The sewage that spilled traveled through openings in the curb leading to underground storm drain pipes, which usually lead to rivers.
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The fire spread underground through a storm drain and ignited a holding pond at a chemical plant.
    — Dan Schwartz, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Many of the discharges came from a Baltimore City storm drain that the facility was hooked up to, in violation of city code.
    — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 6 Apr. 2023
  • In a similar story in June, firefighters in Owing Mills, Maryland, came to the aid of a female deer whose baby got stuck in a storm drain for hours.
    — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Eventually, that sewage entered a storm drain system, which flowed through a pipe that discharged the wastewater about a mile offshore.
    — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Two tiny puppies were swept into a storm drain Wednesday outside Atlanta.
    — Alexis Stevens, ajc, 13 Sep. 2023
  • At another point, he was seen placing a FedEx envelope into a storm drain.
    — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Even now, a full year later, another body turns up from time to time in the vicinity, unearthed from a forlorn grave or recovered from a storm drain.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The shutdown allows contractors to continue the replacement of large pieces of an old storm drain system that was overwhelmed by March rains.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Samadi’s family’s lawsuit contends the three-man city crew should have set up cones and that the trucks should have had their amber flashers on while they were parked on the side of the road cleaning storm drain filters.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Feb. 2024
  • According to court documents, DeFeo tossed evidence into a canal and down a storm drain, then went to work in Brooklyn.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 19 July 2023
  • Instead, Gober has installed a storm drain with water running beneath it.
    — Nick Haramis, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
  • That’s not even near a 100-year event, yet everyone’s flooding because the storm drain system is old and under capacity.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Authorities found Butler’s body in a storm drain near the school’s gymnasium.
    — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 3 Mar. 2024
  • In court Monday, jurors saw a video of Fotis getting out of his truck in Hartford on the night his estranged wife vanished and throwing an envelope into a storm drain.
    — Kc Baker, Peoplemag, 24 Jan. 2024
  • In a similar story last month, two Good Samaritans in California came to the aid of a mother duck in distress because her ducklings were trapped in a storm drain.
    — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2023
  • But the suits claimed that miles of aging underground clay sewer pipes throughout the two cities are cracked and leaking untreated sewage into storm drain systems, which empty into the creeks.
    — Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2024
  • The film opens with a series of slightly strange yet quotidian images that place us within the setting: a bunch of rotting fruit collecting in a storm drain, a deer walking down a set of outdoor stairs.
    — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Environmental groups called the cities’ tactics an unseemly attempt to avoid having to pay to upgrade their sewer pipes and storm drain systems.
    — Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2024

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