Culvert used in a sentence

Culvert in a sentence as a noun

Yes, I meant a structure like a bunker/culvert/etc., not a house.

Around here, we dig a trench when we want to set a pipe or a box culvert.

The culverts can be varying size, even up to 10 feet in diameter.

Of course things like nuclear plants and dams have to be built to withstand the most severe events, but not every culvert on a country road.

I know a local man, fired as an inspector, because at a concrete-culvert installation the crane dropped the casing.

He once told me that he only saw a hound actually catch a fox once when the fox ran though a culvert while the hound ran over it and got to the end first.

My friends and I would play in the drainage culvert under the road, walking back and forth, the far side actually was basically a cliff, but we didn't want to fall, so we took care.

Anecdotal: I walk into the centre of Birmingham through Digbeth across the river Rea in its little culvert most days and have done since around the late 80s. Used to go past small metal bashers and 'repetition' companies with doors open for ventilation.

I had to import a huge file of all of the culverts around storm drains in a state, and each culvert was multiple pieces of geometry, none of them grouped together in any logical way.

Big corrugated culvert and Quonset huts have been buried as temporary military installations.

It was just a huge list of rectangles that looked like culverts when viewed visually but no way to identify them as being one culvert without heuristics on how close each rectangle was to others.

Apparently some municipality decided to turn millions of paper scanned pages of contract bids into piles sorted by contract, so I'd end up sitting there reading all about bids to put in some drainage culvert.

It wasn't until I started having to calculate distances, speeds and areas on maps, culvert diameters and volumes, water pressure through tunnels and actual 'real things' that I really started to understand and stopped making errors with units.

Most caves worth exploring have vertical entrances, one has to rappel into, let's see a robot do that and then climb a 15 foot nuisance drop, then open a heavy culvert door with a blast of wind either coming at you or sucking in pulling on the door, then climb down a ladder in that culvert, traverse some more passage, then rappel off Boulder falls, and on to the Rift, with has a safety line one has to clip onto so when your go around the Freakout Traverse you don't die if you fall, and so on... Yes, this is Lech.