How To Use Manhole cover In A Sentence

  • 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.
  • We also found drainage manhole covers raised to drain off the waters.
  • His rescue began when a neighbor heard him whimpering lifted a manhole cover and peered into the storm drain.
  • Two generators sufficed, these being "nothing more than large tanks of wood, acid-proof inside, and of sufficient strength to resist the expansive action of the gas; they were provided with suitable stopcocks for regulating the admission of the gas, and with manhole covers for introducing the necessary materials. The Dominion of the Air; the story of aerial navigation
  • The graphic city sections take you on a more detailed tour through shop signs, manhole covers and the other unfamiliar objects of urbanity.
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  • Three years ago, three serious offenders escaped after throwing a loose manhole cover through a fence during exercise.
  • His love affair with manhole covers had begun. Times, Sunday Times
  • Smoke poured through manhole covers from underground sewers. Times, Sunday Times
  • A blind man once fell into a sewer because the iron manhole cover was missing.
  • Sea turtles with shells the size of manhole covers sun themselves on the beach.
  • Others were being held after emerging through manhole covers that were then welded shut. Times, Sunday Times
  • They are also great for hiding unsightly manhole covers or moving around when you get bored, to give the garden a different feel. Times, Sunday Times
  • Copper cable, lead from church roofs, and manhole covers are all targets. Times, Sunday Times
  • Smoke poured through manhole covers from underground sewers. Times, Sunday Times
  • I hear them in there pry up his forehead like a manhole cover, clash and snarl of jammed cogs.
  • I have also noted that the manhole covers on the site were well maintained.
  • He is terrified of manhole covers and wheelie bins, and his favourite occupation is swimming in the pool. Times, Sunday Times
  • The manhole cover was missing and the open hole was surrounded by long grass and hidden from view.
  • Manhole covers have been sealed, sight-lines checked and staff vetted.
  • Race Buddy, the animated mascot of TNT's NASCAR coverage, last week appeared in an online video sealing a manhole cover on the trackside hole of Digger, the animated mascot of Fox's NASCAR coverage. Dan Patrick's radio show can become made-for-TV
  • Smoke machines and loudspeakers, carefully hidden in manhole covers throughout Manhattan, completed the breathtakingly convincing display. 9/11: Conspiracy Behind the Conspiracy
  • A woman was trapped for more than an hour after a manhole cover collapsed under her feet, plunging her into the drain below.
  • At First Avenue the crosswalk is blocked by a Con Ed van and an open manhole cover encircled by yellow rubber cones.
  • He is terrified of manhole covers and wheelie bins, and his favourite occupation is swimming in the pool. Times, Sunday Times
  • Included with this bust is a separate Central City manhole cover, to be placed on or near the bust by the consumer. Dark Horse Solicitations for May 2008 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
  • It is not known what caused the manhole cover to become airborne. The Sun
  • My son-in-law says the manhole cover is down in the hole, smashed up.
  • They were removing steelwork from an old part of the ground when one of the wheels of the 15-tonne elevated working platform went through a concrete manhole cover.
  • In Washington, manhole covers will be sealed and rubbish bins removed. Times, Sunday Times
  • They both found a manhole cover and climbed back down into the sewer system.
  • His love affair with manhole covers had begun. Times, Sunday Times
  • Of course these things are never easy; the manhole cover had rusted into position.
  • So omnivorous is the Chinese appetite for imports that when the country ran short of scrap metal in early 2004, manhole covers disappeared from cities all over the world. Links for 2008-04-10 « Skid Roche
  • It's rusty water, leaking from conduit lines beneath a manhole cover on Riggs Road.
  • Less than an hour later, they uncovered a metal door the size of a manhole cover.
  • How did they know to come out at that manhole cover? Times, Sunday Times
  • Thus a small canvas - "Seal" (2007) - depicting close-up a wax seal stamped with a Christogram makes it appear as huge as a manhole cover, while the couple preening through SFGate: Top News Stories
  • Amazingly, the circle isn't the only shape that would work safely as a manhole cover.
  • Light shone through the holes in the manhole covers.
  • There was a manhole cover that we'd jump down and sit in while the train went past. Times, Sunday Times
  • Cast iron manhole cover anti impact resistance, easy rupture.
  • It was a ritual that we in Ireland became familiar with in recent years, as streets were emptied of cars, drains and manhole covers were checked and sealed, snipers were put on rooftops and in all unsealed windows.
  • The manhole covers had gone, leaving the streets pockmarked with gaping mantraps, while one abandoned tank was vanishing day by day, melting away "as if its armour-plating had been made of ice". Rereading: Naples '44 by Norman Lewis
  • It was circular and about seven feet in diameter, like a giant manhole cover.
  • We just have to pop the copper cables out of a manhole cover at three or four days' notice. Times, Sunday Times
  • Daniel lifted the manhole cover and placed it on the side.
  • At First Avenue the crosswalk is blocked by a Con Ed van and an open manhole cover encircled by yellow rubber cones.
  • This meant that a milkman who was injured by a defective manhole cover could not sue the owner of the land over which the right of way passed.
  • Smoke poured through manhole covers from underground sewers. Times, Sunday Times
  • He is terrified of manhole covers and wheelie bins, and his favourite occupation is swimming in the pool. Times, Sunday Times
  • The sewer grills and manhole covers have already been soldered into place.
  • Sea turtles with shells the size of manhole covers sun themselves on the beach.
  • When the foul vapours build up, they're released through the manhole covers, befouling our proud city streets.
  • What are the suggested alternatives to manhole cover? Exploring language (6th edn)
  • Victorian architecture made much use of cast-iron ornament, and great variety is to be found all over the country, from manhole covers to weathervanes, fountains and bridges.

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