manhole

How To Use manhole In A Sentence

• So he will never be where the fathomless manhole awaits, where the safe falls from the high window shrieking like a bomb-he is a pilot through Earth's baddest minefields, if we only stay close to him, be where he is as much as we can-yet Maximilian's doom is never to go any further into danger than its dapperness, its skin-exciting first feel .... Gravity's Rainbow
• His head said not even his faithful border collie could survive a horror like falling down a manhole.
• He is terrified of manhole covers and wheelie bins, and his favourite occupation is swimming in the pool. Times, Sunday Times
• After emerging from a manhole he commandeered a car from a woman. Times, Sunday Times
• I have also noted that the manhole covers on the site were well maintained.
• D.C. Fire and EMS is investigating smoke coming from four Pepco manholes in the 1300 block of H Street NE. Report: Smoking manholes on H St. NE
• He believed that if he stood on a manhole cover in Liverpool's Matthew Street while his two groups played live on opposite sides of the world, the converging ley lines would fill him with a powerful life force.
• I have kept one very conveniently in a vacuum desiccator over phosphorus pentoxide, but if of any size, the condenser deserves a box to itself, and this must be air-tight and provided with a drying reagent, so arranged that it can be removed through a manhole of some sort. On Laboratory Arts
• As security fences and barriers went up, manholes were welded shut and hotels and offices swept by teams of officials.
• Smoke poured through manhole covers from underground sewers. Times, Sunday Times