sewage
Use Sewage in a sentence
ɪdʒ noun
the waste matter that passes through sewers.
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| waste matter from domestic or industrial establishments that is carried away in sewers or drains for dumping or conversion into a form that is not toxic | |
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Sewage
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
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Example sentences
Water and gas are delivered, and sewage removed, via vertical steel pipes in the non-rotating base.
Find out how divers clean out the buildup in a sewage overflow tunnel.
Remove grit from the wastewater by forcing the sewage through a grit chamber.
But metal and food was dumped over the side as well as raw sewage that was not filtered in any way.
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