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culverts

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for culverts.

Editorial note

Hell, most of our roads don't even have pipe drains but instead use culverts designed 100 years ago.

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Quick take

A channel crossing under a road or railway for the draining of water.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of culverts gathered in one view.

noun

A channel crossing under a road or railway for the draining of water.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for culverts.

noun

A channel crossing under a road or railway for the draining of water.

Example sentences

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Hell, most of our roads don't even have pipe drains but instead use culverts designed 100 years ago.

2

Government works on boring stuff like the culverts that are essential to stopping roads flooding.

3

Turning underpasses and culverts into lakes can cause flooding and road destabilization.

4

But each and every one had the exact same driveway and culverts.

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There are smaller culverts all over the place for smaller wildlife.

6

For permitting regular water flow tru a trackbed: what culverts etc.

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In a more urban part like in la there are no busy bodies, you see kids out skateboarding drainage culverts during school hours all the time.

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Like simple bridges, or large culverts running underneath the highway.

9

He's a guy who, for fun, cleans out clogged culverts.

10

Need wildlife bridges and culverts over the highways.

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Highways are built over culverts all the time.

12

Keep in mind; we're talking about a town with a population of around 1,000 people, and we have over 30 of these culverts and bridges scattered across our approximately 80 miles of road within a 55-square-mile area.

Quote examples

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I understand the concern of "why could this possibly take $90 million, the animals don't care anyways" but I am sure that more thought has been put into this than just sticking corrugated metal culverts every so often.

2

But they did know that ecosystems were especially tiresome when they got fubared, so they protected the environment with the same implacable, plodding, green-visioned mentality that they applied to designing overpasses and culverts." -- Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age.

3

And I‘d assume that there‘s reasons to build them that way - other than „all wildlife experts agree that it‘s more beautiful.“ I can imagine that some species of wildlife just don‘t crawl through culverts - or even may not fit.

Proper noun examples

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Culverts of various sizes can be placed - animals come in various sizes.

2

Culverts come in all sizes, even 10 foot diameter ones.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use culverts in a sentence?

Hell, most of our roads don't even have pipe drains but instead use culverts designed 100 years ago.

What does culverts mean?

A channel crossing under a road or railway for the draining of water.

What part of speech is culverts?

culverts is commonly used as noun.