How do you use Culvert in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like drain or drainpipe, plus the exact meaning.
Culvert meaning
A channel crossing under a road or railway for the draining of water.
Using Culvert
- The main meaning on this page is: A channel crossing under a road or railway for the draining of water.
- Useful related words include: drain, drainpipe, waste pipe.
- In the example corpus, culvert often appears in combinations such as: the culvert, box culvert, culvert and.
Context around Culvert
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 9 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Culvert
- In this selection, "culvert" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, box, gargantuan, lane, replacement, project and near stand out and add context to how "culvert" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a box culvert with a and a concrete culvert and flip. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "culvert" sits close to words such as abate, aeronautics and affidavits, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with culvert
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The Brigham Street culvert will soon be repaired. (8 words)
The culvert is aging and needs to be replaced. (9 words)
A culvert-wide Section 19 Investigation report has been commissioned. (10 words)
In her letter, Healey noted that Springfield experienced what she described as a catastrophic water main break attributed to the failure of a culvert and subsequent erosion related to the rainfall experienced on the evening of Sept. 11. (38 words)
If you’ve been out to Alaganik lately, then you have seen the gargantuan culvert being put in. Did you know that the Copper River Watershed Project spearheaded that culvert replacement project and secured funding for it? (37 words)
The county’s crew replaced an additional seven wooden bridges and one box culvert with corrugated metal pipes and replaced a box culvert with a new box culvert at a cost of $356,581.37. (35 words)
If you’ve been out to Alaganik lately, then you have seen the gargantuan culvert being put in. Did you know that the Copper River Watershed Project spearheaded that culvert replacement project and secured funding for it? (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
The county’s crew replaced an additional seven wooden bridges and one box culvert with corrugated metal pipes and replaced a box culvert with a new box culvert at a cost of $356,581.37.
If you’ve been out to Alaganik lately, then you have seen the gargantuan culvert being put in. Did you know that the Copper River Watershed Project spearheaded that culvert replacement project and secured funding for it?
Any funds awarded through this grant will be applied to the Bowman Lane culvert project cost.
In the second accident reported near Virudhunagar, two persons were killed and five others were injured when a speeding car rammed against a parapet wall of a culvert near Amathur.
It’s great news for salmon, who have been unable to migrate up Abel Creek for years because the box culvert is in such disrepair.
Most recently, Lopez-Anido’s research team received the Best Paper Award for large-scale 3D printing for highway culvert rehabilitation by the Society of Plastics Engineers.
Now Aldi has decided to build its new Sutton store further up the Brassington Avenue site, to avoid the culvert altogether, with its service yard and HGVs, also not driving over it.
Reports indicate that Lee lost control of the vehicle while negotiating a bend, causing it to collide with a concrete culvert and flip into a nearby trench.
The Brigham Street culvert will soon be repaired.
The club has applied to the Environment Agency (EA) to vary this permit further to allow it to form a channel from the outfall of Seldom Seen Culvert to the River Kent in the bay.
The culvert is aging and needs to be replaced.
The pickup hit a culvert on the side of the road where it came to a rest on the passenger side.
The project is not related to the permanent repairs to road and culvert damage that occurred on Highway 133 in May, making travel difficult.
There are many who dreamed of seeing projects, like the culvert replacements, completed.
They also said they had never installed a driveway or culvert on the property.
A culvert-wide Section 19 Investigation report has been commissioned.
If you look at the volume of water coming from the other side of the culvert to Jordan Street, it is substantial.
In her letter, Healey noted that Springfield experienced what she described as a catastrophic water main break attributed to the failure of a culvert and subsequent erosion related to the rainfall experienced on the evening of Sept. 11.
In his opinion, LaCas said the culvert had the capacity to handle water volumes of a one-in-10-year flood.
It was drained, sown, rolled, large boulders were removed and the Farburn, which crossed the landing field, had to be enclosed in a culvert.
Common combinations with culvert
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the culvert 15×
- box culvert 8×
- culvert and 8×
- culvert that 5×
- culvert on 4×
- and culvert 4×
- culvert replacements 4×
- in culvert 4×
- culvert with 3×
- culvert at 3×