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How to use sewage in a sentence

20 example sentences · noun

Sewage means a suspension of water and solid waste, transported by sewers to be disposed of or processed. Example: “Untreated sewage can pollute rivers.”

Examples of sewage by meaning

nounA suspension of water and solid waste, transported by sewers to be disposed of or processed.

  • Untreated sewage can pollute rivers.
  • The city invested in a modern sewage system.

More sentences with sewage

  • The sewer burst, and a tide of sewage poured into nearby properties.From the entry tide
  • They flooded the room with sewage.From the entry flood
  • Before I knew it, I was standing knee deep in sewage.2008, Ed Stetzer, “Kingdom Come”, in Sent: Living the Missional Nature of the Church, LifeWay Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 47. From the entry grandsonly
  • One swine megafarm in Milford Valley, Utah, reputedly produces more sewage than the city of Los Angeles.2006, Mike Davis, The Monster at Our Door, →ISBN, page 84. From the entry megafarm
  • We need new methods of reducing and coping with wastes—radioactive, sewage, gaseous, and liquid.1971, John R. Wish, Marketing and social issues: an action reader, John Wiley & Sons. From the entry exhaustless
  • The sewage goes away–to where I’m not exactly sure.2017 April 12, “Surviving a Jawhole disaster in La Yacata”, in Surviving Mexico, archived from the original on 24 Jun 2022. From the entry jawhole
  • Cesspits were cleaned out by a worker known as a ‘gong-fermer’, who carted the sewage off to manure the vegetable plot.2011, Brian Williams, Life in a Medieval Castle, Pitkin Publishing, "Castle Home". From the entry gong-fermer
  • At the same time, one of the sources of enteroviruses in the environment are the fecalia and the daily-economic sewage.1964, Hygiene and Sanitation, page 36. From the entry fecalia
  • So far as cartoons are concerned these days, nothing—not even sewage works—is sacred, and everything is thereby readabler and believabler.1953 February, American Water Works Association, “Percolation and Runoff”, in Journal, volume 45, number 2, Denver, Colo., →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry readable
  • Nansi Lake is also a recipient of medical, sewage treatment plant, livestock and aquaculture wastewater, which are the major sources of antibiotic pollution.2020 March, Guodong Zhang, Xiaohuii Liu, Shaoyang Lu, Jinpeng Zhang, Weiliang Wang, “Occurrence of typical antibiotics in Nansi Lake’s…. From the entry Nansi
  • The nightcart travelled up and down city and suburban streets collecting pans full of sewage and replacing them with fresh empty ones.2013, Phillip Knightley, R M Crawford, Australia, →ISBN, page 46. From the entry nightcart
  • The Ngong Ping Sewage Treatment Works (NPSTW) on Lantau is the first tertiary sewage treatment and reclaimed water facility built in Hong Kong.2011 May 5, Derek P. T. Yue, S. L. Tang, “Sustainable strategies on water supply management in Hong Kong”, in Water and Environment…. From the entry Lantau
  • Coupled with sewage, the unnatural intensity of these nutrients makes the algae in the bay overbloom, and too much algae in turn blocks sunlight.2004, Robert P. Marzec, The Mid-Atlantic Region, page 83. From the entry overbloom
  • The Chinshan Chemical Plant of China Metal Company in Chinshan Township, Taipei County, has been discharging waste gas and sewage containing strong acid for years.1987 July 18 [1987 January], “Report on 1986 Human Rights Situation in Taiwan”, in China Report: Political, Sociological and Military…. From the entry Chinshan
  • The sewage is pretreated mechanically before proceeding to a sedimentator with a sprinkling system and a sludge collection hopper connected to an aeration tank.1976, United States. Office of International Marketing, Air and Water Purification and Pollution Control Equipment, page 115. From the entry sedimentator
  • Mark was a tattooed, hairy, nuggety, foul-mouthed Aussie bloke (you're probably thinking, as opposed to all those gentle, feminine men who work at the sewage treatment plant).2012, Adam Fraser, Write Now!The Third Space, →ISBN, page 133. From the entry nuggety
  • He said the other project features construction of a branch sewage collection system in the Wanhua and Tatung districts, where an urban renewal program is in progress.1973 March 25, “Work gets under way on sewers for Taipei”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly], volume XIV, number 11, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry Tatung
  • Washed-up jerry cans and bits of lumber wriggled at the water's edge, amid the sewage and the sloggings of occasional fishermen and the spreading wake of a Vietnamese patrol boat.1983, National Lampoon, volume 2, numbers 54-65. From the entry slogging

Meaning of sewage

  1. noun A suspension of water and solid waste, transported by sewers to be disposed of or processed.
  2. noun Sewerage (sewer system).

Full definition of sewage

Questions about sewage in a sentence

How do you use sewage in a sentence?
Sewage is used as a noun. For example: “Untreated sewage can pollute rivers.”
What is a short sentence with sewage?
“Untreated sewage can pollute rivers.”
What does sewage mean?
Sewage means a suspension of water and solid waste, transported by sewers to be disposed of or processed.

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