sewers

Synonyms

sewerage sewage sewer gutter septic tank

Examples

From ancient drains and sewers of the language (maritime inns and brothels...), from scrawls in the catacombs...whoremasters' chapbooks...the vocabulary of tavern brawls. Anthony Burgess

... And so Charlie Asher... led an army of fourteen-inch-tall bundles of animal bits, armed with everything from knitting needles to a spork, into the storm sewers of San Fransciso. Christopher Moore (author)

Prostitution in towns is like the sewer in a palace; take away the sewers and the palace becomes an impure and stinking place. Thomas Aquinas

A lot of people would rather tour sewers than visit their cousins. Jane Howard

About 100,000 feet of these wooden pipes were installed during WW2 in drainage culverts, storm sewers and conduits, under highways and at army camps, naval stations, airfields and ordnance plants. Source: Internet

All Eastern streets, bridges, paths, windows, doors, gates, and sewers opening to West Berlin were systematically sealed off by walls, concrete elements, barbed wire, and/or bars. Source: Internet