How To Use Drainpipe In A Sentence
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We could all have tips on lock picking and scaling drainpipes! on March 30, 2010 at 11: 50 pm allcoppedout
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Venting a fixture when the drain piping is all under the floor, such as a toilet, sometimes requires that the vent be connected to the horizontal drainpipe, when there is not enough room to stack a tee in the vertical riser pipe to the fixture.
Toilet Paper
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They were drainpipes, out of fashion, and I was the laughing stock of the school.
Remembrance Day: 'I'm an old man, I am supposed to be tough. I thought I was hard, but I'm not. He's my dad and I miss him'
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Okay, I understand her parents getting mad when she shimmies down the drainpipe from her second-story room on weekends to go party with friends, but one B + is nothing.
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This was in the mid-seventies when the sight of brothel creepers, fluorescent socks, drape coats and drainpipe trousers was as outrageous as seeing a man ride down the street on a penny farthing.
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The use of plastic drainpipes is becoming widespread in all types of agricultural underdrainage work.
2.1. Open ditches
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It describes the myriad of ways that cell phone masts have been hidden: ‘They are being disguised as chimneys, clocks, drainpipes, telegraph poles, and even weathervanes.’
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They were the years of drainpipe trousers, the birth of rock 'n' roll, and TV in good old black and white - and the over-50s wish the fabulous 1950s were still here.
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It's about rats crawling up a drainpipe or something.
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The second method is a little more practical - our main concern is that people will climb up our drainpipe to the balcony (we live on the street side of the building).
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Climbers are great for hiding drainpipes, but go for neater, smaller ivies or the scented Trachelospermum jaminoides or Jasminum polyanthum.
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If you are putting a new drainpipe on the side of your wall, and the drainpipe covers the street sign that is on the side of the wall, what do you do?
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Drainpipe trousers (as they were then called) were also extremely popular in the punk movement of the late 1970s, worn by many bands and scene leaders.
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Thoughts fly to Tom - he could probably break in through plumbing outlet or shin gracefully up drainpipe.
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If the air is dirty, there must be a missing scrubber on a smokestack or a drainpipe that needs a filter.
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Cut another piece of drainpipe that fits between the elbow on the wall and 1 foot above the ground.
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One exception: Noel Fielding may continue to wear his drainpipes.
Dear Gods of Fashion
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Excess water drains out the bottom pot into a pan of gravel that sits on top of a drainpipe to take the excess solution to the landscape cistern as described earlier.
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Even the plastic drainpipes were swapped for handcrafted lead ones.
Times, Sunday Times
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The noise you hear is toilet effluent running down the drainpipe inside the wall.
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Once I climbed up a drainpipe and along a gutter to avoid a fence around the ward and escaped into the bushes.
Henry’s Demons
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My heart goes out to Malcolm and I sincerely hope he finds somewhere better to live than another drainpipe.
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Reason to love it number one is: nothing about it is embarrassing, not even his outfits (think black leather waistcoat, striped drainpipe trousers and black ear studs), never mind the celebrity quotient.
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Kim carried on down the drainpipe and when she reached the end of the guttering, she glanced around to see if there was anyone in the surrounding streets.
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After a block she was falling behind and quickly found a drainpipe she could clamber down.
RISE OF A MERCHANT PRINCE: BOOK TWO OF THE SERPENTWAR SAGA
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Not only does the drainpipe leg hang badly with most footwear but it emphasises the fuller hips and rear.
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I snuck back to the house, climbing the back shed drainpipe and dropping to the floor of my bedroom, before stripping the leotard off and burying it deep in my laundry basket.
Four-leafed clover
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Firefighters praised a teenage girl who shinned down a drainpipe and rescued her sister and friend trapped in a house blaze.
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While the mill office pays homage to the Temple of Horus at Edfu, the factory floor is set under a vaulted and top-lit roof supported by a forest of cast-iron columns doubling up as drainpipes.
In praise of … Temple Mill | Editorial
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This allows you to drive the snake deeply into the drainpipe.
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Dandelions grew out of drainpipes, fences were rotten or half down, some places boarded up, gardens full of nettles and brambles.
THE OPEN DOOR
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She flushed the toilet, and we all three stood there crowded into the little bathroom and watched the water swirl and kerplunk down the drainpipe and gurgle as the bowl and tank refilled themselves.
"The Misses Moses," from my collection Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives (Norton 2010)
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I was still in grey flannel shorts, and I'd see all these wonderful-looking women and all these guys with sunglasses and drainpipe trousers.
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But can not phone him from Twills as Mr Twill would insist on shinning up drainpipe himself and break femur.
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Standing outside the post office by the College gates, Andy wore new black drainpipes, a new psychedelic-looking shirt and new sunglasses.
MUSIC FOR BOYS
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I was the lead singer and used to wear tight red drainpipe trousers and thin ties.
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The valve should allow a burst of hot water into the drainpipe.
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I have on a pair of very tight drainpipe trousers, shirt and skinny tie, and a jacket whose thin lapels are partly hidden by a row of tiny badges featuring the names of punk bands.
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Meltwater sometimes overwhelms the interior "drainpipes" of glaciers and causes them to lurch forward, possibly explaining the widespread acceleration of glaciers observed worldwide ...
Undefined
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Drainpipes were pulled from their mountings and a hand rail was ripped from the stairs.
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Columns of cast iron doubled as drainpipes and supports for the ceiling, which had domed skylights.
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Luckily his skinned knees were hidden and there were no other visible signs of his descent by drainpipe.
FORESTS OF THE NIGHT
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A more effective insulation is to box in the trap and drainpipe and fill the box with fiberglass insulation.
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Rain dripped off tile and wood roofs, trickled metallically down drainpipes and into gutters.
A Corridor in the Asylum
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Vital Signs - If there is one thing guaranteed to set a Lemmings teeth on edge it's white guys with dreadlocks, no I really mean 'drainpipe' reggae (i.e. no flair).
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A suspended ceiling in the town's social welfare office collapsed after water burst from a drainpipe on the roof of the building.
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we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe
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In east London youths dressed in drainpipe trousers and slicked back their hair.
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Damien said a man had shinned up a drainpipe and tried to get into a first-floor room on Thursday night to impress his girlfriend.
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I have on a pair of very tight drainpipe trousers, shirt and skinny tie, and a jacket whose thin lapels are partly hidden by a row of tiny badges featuring the names of punk bands.
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He constructed a toreador mounted on a horse composed of drainpipes, with bicycle tyres to represent the horse's protruding entrails.
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A drug addict who raided his mother's home after he shinned up the drainpipe is behind bars for 16 months.
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Short cropped, short sleeved mink or fur jackets will be a 2004/5 fashion when worn with narrow trousers that seem sprayed on drainpipe style.
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The menswear company has moved away from its association with pastel golfing jumpers and football hooligans and has, instead, branched out into baggy tracksuits and drainpipe trousers.
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The Three Horseshoes Mall has seen an increase in crime including broken drainpipes, smashed bottles and graffiti daubed on shop windows.
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The courtyard was only twenty square yards, but there was a drainpipe where the fence met the wall.
Henry’s Demons
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He sensed that a patient had excess energy, so he grounded the patient's big toe to a drainpipe with copper wire, and - lo and behold - it worked!
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Skinny drainpipe jeans and trousers will soon be the next pants style to adopt, so think carefully when making future new trouser purchases.
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Offered a free bed and nosebag, Tony is there like a rat up a drainpipe.
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Behind the house, she shed her shoes and clutched the drainpipe which rose to the roof gutter.
CHAMELEON
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He said the problem of flooding was caused by a blocked drainpipe and corrected by a redesign and additional downpipes.
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She flushed the toilet, and we all three stood there crowded into the little bathroom and watched the water swirl and kerplunk down the drainpipe and gurgle as the bowl and tank refilled themselves.
"The Misses Moses," from my collection Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives (Norton 2010)
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Janie had never shinnied down a drainpipe before, and halfway down the one outside her window she fell, numbing her left arm and side.
The Night Of the Solstice
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Quickly scaling up another two floors, Alanis took her hands off the drainpipe, reached up and grasped the gutter above her head, then flipped herself onto the roof.
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I have on a pair of very tight drainpipe trousers, shirt and skinny tie, and a jacket whose thin lapels are partly hidden by a row of tiny badges featuring the names of punk bands.
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This third type, called controlled drainage, allows the grower to set the drainage outlet at any level between the ground surface and the drainpipe.
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He innocently assumed that a steel cover placed over a drainpipe was safe to walk on.
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The drainpipe's opening was 60 centimeters wide.
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Fair-sized window and shinning down a drainpipe, followed by red faces all round.
Times, Sunday Times
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Set the new floor bolts in plumber's putty and insert them through the flange, adjusting the bolts so they line up with the center of the drainpipe.
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In a recent column, you stated that the drainpipe for a water heater must terminate at the exterior of a building, even when the water heater is installed in a garage.
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The Three Horseshoes Mall has seen an increase in crime including broken drainpipes, smashed bottles and graffiti daubed on shop windows.
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If the air is dirty, there must be a missing scrubber on a smokestack or a drainpipe that needs a filter.
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A man who shinned up a drainpipe and entered a teenager's bedroom in a hostel in the early hours was today starting a 12-month jail term.
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It was always too dark, or windy, it was too late to call or she would have grown blooms enough to rasp against the drainpipe, she could have frilled the sills with fringe.
Painted Garden
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When the drainpipe terminates outside the building it can be installed in a fully visible location, such as at the front porch or along a common walkway.
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We are all more or less in agreement that the last ten years or so of the bootleg cut or flared shapes tend to be more flattering than the drainpipes or baggy clown trousers nipped in at the ankle that we all sported 20 years ago.
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TRIBAL LEADERSTeddy Boys, Mods and RockersIn drape jackets, drainpipes and creepers, Teddy boys roamed the streets as rock 'n' roll took root in Britain.
Is music tribalism dead?
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Oil drums, drainpipes, corrugated roofs, each a corroded excremental brown.
The Forsaken
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Water escaped rapidly from the drainpipe.
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Still, if you took a lep down on a wall there and shinned it up a drainpipe you might come close.
At Swim, Two Boys
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Orphaned Eton schoolboy James Bond trains for his later death-defying escapes by climbing school roofs and shinning down drainpipes as well as seeing off school bullies, whose character traits resemble his later opponents.
Recommended reads: ages 8–10
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Sitting one day in their three-bedroom semi in Audenshaw, Andy and Anna looked out to see two teenagers climbing up a drainpipe of the Junction pub opposite.
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The rat had entered the under-sink cabinet from below, through the open space around the drainpipe, and had been feasting on our garbage.
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Ideally, the drainpipe is sloped or inclined approximately 2% or ¼ inch per foot of length, to keep the waste in the pipe, wet and amid liquid to lubricate and promote its slow but constant movement along the length of the pipe.
Toilet Paper and Mexican Plumbing
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Tracy pointed at a drainpipe leading down the side.
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He's still drainpipe thin, official rock legend dimensions, although his nervy stare is now crowned by a raffish swoop of snowy grey where a slick black executive crewcut once sat.
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‘If you or I were to apply for planning permission for a house, we would have to ensure that we supplied detailed engineering drawings dimensioning everything down to the diameter of the drainpipes,’ he said.
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At the back she had a close-up view of the houses behind, a vista of irregular windows and drainpipes leaning at crazy angles.
THE WHITE DOVE
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It could be that your drainpipe trousers weren't quite narrow enough, you didn't have the current cool brand of shoes or you hadn't bought the last big thing pop record.
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One was tall and very thin, wearing black drainpipe trousers that accentuated his figure.
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Is there a drainpipe that diverts water from the base of the wall to the street?
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They cut through the chain locking the bike to a drainpipe outside the flat where Mr Croucher was staying in the early hours of April 10.
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So I had no difficulty in spotting which drainpipe you come down by.
PASSION IN THE PEAK
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I nodded, swung out the window, and scooched down the drainpipe.
