(n.) A hole through which a man may descend or creep into a drain, sewer, steam boiler, parts of machinery, etc., for cleaning or repairing.
Example Sentences:
(1) I went to the US point of arrival and opened the manhole they come up through: it was heavily piped, dark, uninteresting.
(2) The easiest thing to do would have been to get a manhole cover and record the real thing, but in those days location recording was considered to be too hard in New York City, so I had to do it in the studio,” said Lievsay.
(3) When entering manholes, employees must adhere strictly to all safety rules, such as the testing of the air before entry, ventilation of the air spaces, and the presence of a standby rescue worker.
(4) In Houston, on any given day, entomologists can be found clanking open manhole covers, wading into ditches or walking through backyards of obliging residents.
(5) It was a cursory, four-paragraph news story: the Times of India last October reported the case of four Indian workers who were killed while cleaning manholes in Doha.
(6) But somewhere between the non-coast guard approved rubber duckie floatation device and open manholes there is a happy middle ground.
(7) BT's fibre to the remote node (FTTRn) system brings optic fibre cables from the local telephone exchange to the street, where a small box will be attached to a telegraph pole, fixed to a wall or sunk into a manhole.
(8) If we hadn't discovered it in time, raw sewage could have started spurting out of manholes across the whole of Kingston.
(9) Residents say Carlos was trying to unclog a manhole and was carried by the force of the current and debris.
(10) The council also had to be invoked in LN-C's case because it had concreted over relevant manhole covers and she now has a working line.
(11) In May 2007 a manhole at Dounreay in northern Scotland was found to be contaminated with plutonium.
(12) One of the team tells me the furthest he had ever travelled underground away from a manhole or other exit was 600m.
(13) All along the side of this road at regular intervals were these manholes for individual people that had thick straw lids that you pull over to protect you from the bombs and the shrapnel.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Manhole covers, jam and allotments: Jeremy Corbyn on The One Show This is the party, after all, that suddenly announced the retirement age for 2.6 million women would jump from 60 to 66.
(15) The diagnosis of acute stagnant air syndrome for this type of accident is introduced herein, to alert industrial concerns and the medical professions about the existence of this occupational hazard confronting individuals who work in confined and poorly ventilated manholes.
(16) The American public doesn't respond to the bra burners, the fighters, the women who insist on calling manhole covers 'people-hole covers'.
(17) It is suggested that a simple locking device, similar to that employed on manhole covers, would eliminate this type of injury.
(18) queries his 13-year-old leading man, who then questions the position of the manhole cover.
(19) Come February, there may be a new name on the manhole cover, but it’ll still be the same sewer.
(20) First, he had an audition of sorts: Scorsese gave him a bit of film and said, “See what you can do with that.” It was a clip – later edited out of the movie – of Griffin Dunne crawling up out of a manhole, and they needed a sound for the scraping of the manhole cover as Dunne shoved it aside.
Pothole
Definition:
(n.) A circular hole formed in the rocky beds of rivers by the grinding action of stones or gravel whirled round by the water in what was at first a natural depression of the rock.
Example Sentences:
(1) The George Bush campaign juggernaut hit the first serious pothole of its cash-fuelled drive to the presidency yesterday, as the Texas governor tried in vain to fend off questions about whether he had used cocaine as a young man.
(2) The Washington DC transportation department put out a tweet saying that the coming apocalypse would have an impact on road maintenance: "Sorry, we will no longer be able to fill your potholes after Saturday."
(3) They once journeyed six hours out of sprawling Mexico City to deliver an order, using specially designed backpacks that protect the food from the city’s potholed streets.
(4) The heat is getting oppressive but we stay alert and try to move with the flow, sticking to the left as much as possible and keeping an eye out for potholes and drain covers whose grilles face the direction of travel – lying in wait to trap unwary bike tyres.
(5) On an otherwise ordinary-looking, potholed street in the district of Victoria Island in Lagos, Nigeria , is a stone encrusted gate with personalised initials.
(6) After eight hours of rallying, Kuti was dismissive of accepting anything short of a full governmental U-turn as he settled down to a spliff in his home, a rambling two-storey affair down a potholed road.
(7) A potholed gravel road runs to a campsite at the mouth of the Mattole river and from there you can wander south down the coast for 25 miles before you come to the next road, at Shelter Cove.
(8) It’s dawn and it’s sub-zero and it’s a potholed car park in Vilnius, eastern Lithuania, and a hobbit is preparing to tell the world about the Holocaust.
(9) The number 38 bus from Bury had skidded out of control on an icy pothole and crushed her against the wall of the Job Centre.
(10) I damaged my car and tyre after hitting a pothole in the dark.
(11) Weah embraces the familiar imagery of African nobility - the lion - and walks with a clear sense of self-worth through the smoking, potholed streets of Monrovia.
(12) Those potholes, cracks and poor surfaces add up to a $4.3tn investment deficit, according to the ASCE.
(13) Temperatures climb above 40C even before the sun has hit the pitted, potholed surface of the streets through which he pushes his vegetable barrow day after day.
(14) Walking through the dismal Leipzig suburbs feels like being transported back 20 years: there are potholes, weeds growing through the tarmac, dozens of uniform grey apartment blocks.
(15) Only 2% of the country's roads are paved, and these are riddled with potholes.
(16) The road falls and rises to the horizon like a highway across the American midwest, except that the surface is brick-red mud and stones and potholes.
(17) The hall where it was held is only a stone’s throw from Jaywick , the jumble of former holiday chalets and potholed streets that is reckoned to be the poorest council ward in England: on the face of it, a symbol of the kind of deep social problems that tend to be synonymous with political apathy.
(18) We even have an app to report potholes in the city, which in one month registered more than 2,000.
(19) If you can show the council was aware of a dangerous pothole, and yet several weeks later you drove into it and damaged your car, you have a claim.
(20) All very idealistic except for the potholes, lorries and dust!