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How to use manhole in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word manhole? Here are some examples.

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A mother is recovering at home after plunging six feet into the ground after a manhole collapsed beneath her.
Men began to swarm up out of the manhole cover behind me, and men erupted from covers and storm drains all over the center of the city.
Three years ago, three serious offenders escaped after throwing a loose manhole cover through a fence during exercise.
His rescue began when a neighbor heard him whimpering lifted a manhole cover and peered into the storm drain.
It was circular and about seven feet in diameter, like a giant manhole cover.
The graphic city sections take you on a more detailed tour through shop signs, manhole covers and the other unfamiliar objects of urbanity.
Less than an hour later, they uncovered a metal door the size of a manhole cover.
Sea turtles with shells the size of manhole covers sun themselves on the beach.
Like in a car engine, the gas released from a manhole explosion could push on a piston and turn a crankshaft.
When the foul vapours build up, they're released through the manhole covers, befouling our proud city streets.
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.
A blind man once fell into a sewer because the iron manhole cover was missing.
There's a tasteful brown-sugar cheesecake shaped like a tart, and a flaky apple crostata shaped like a small manhole cover.
The sewage overflows from a manhole on a footpath in the second road of the estate.
I have also noted that the manhole covers on the site were well maintained.
A woman was trapped for more than an hour after a manhole cover collapsed under her feet, plunging her into the drain below.
It's rusty water, leaking from conduit lines beneath a manhole cover on Riggs Road.
Amazingly, the circle isn't the only shape that would work safely as a manhole cover.
They both found a manhole cover and climbed back down into the sewer system.
The manhole cover was missing and the open hole was surrounded by long grass and hidden from view.
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If I served you right, I would drop you through the manhole, just to wake you up.
It was empty then, and its manhole was the foremost one in the alleyway.
He backed toward the open manhole of the nomad, still grinning.
A manhole had to be put in the top and a sump in the bottom.
Carr hissed in Ora's ear as his fingers found the rim of the manhole.
Directly below it was a circular manhole in the floor from which he removed the cover revealing a well partially filled with a reddish liquid.
All the ducts in a bank were thus rodded from manhole to manhole.
Providing illumination also necessarily meant protecting citizens from potential bad side effects like gasometer explosions or electrified manhole covers.
For workers utilizing manholes, Allegro offers multiple products including the Magnetic Manhole Lid Lifter which offers quick, safe removal and replacement of manhole covers.
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