How to Use culvert in a Sentence

culvert

noun

• Others moved rocks in the stream to make way for the culvert.
  — Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 26 June 2025
• Does the water take a sharp bend to enter the culvert?
  — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2026
• How far is the top of the culvert from the surface of the roadway?
  — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2026
• Does the culvert impede the flow of water?
  — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2026
• Horses are meant to be on all fours, not stuck on their rear ends in a cement culvert.
  — Shelly Bradbury, The Denver Post, 28 Nov. 2024
• Bates' car swerved off the freeway and came to a rest in a culvert, police said.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2025
• There's a, uh, like a little culvert or something.
  — Outside Online, 18 Feb. 2026
• In the footage, Mesa, patrolling in the culvert on a bike, grabbed one of the boys.
  — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 19 Feb. 2017
• Take your pedestal seat down and lay on your back to slide your boat beneath a culvert or a walkway.
  — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 10 July 2024
• Her body was found wrapped in a culvert in June 2023.
  — Sydney Mook, Twin Cities, 30 Apr. 2026
• The culvert runs under the parking lot north of the soccer area.
  — Melanie Feuk, Houston Chronicle, 5 May 2018
• There, the car struck a culvert and flipped onto its passenger's side.
  — Laura McKnight, NOLA.com, 9 Dec. 2017
• Many are beside creeks and in drainage culverts, where storm water and flash floods pose a constant threat.
  — Sara Cline, ExpressNews.com, 29 Nov. 2019
• Lora is also looking for funds to surround the culvert with a large fence that curves at the top.
  — Topher Sanders, ProPublica, 9 Dec. 2021
• With the culvert flow blocked, runoff backed up and eventually flowed across the surface of the road.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 6 July 2022
• Large rocks the road department placed alongside the road and new, big culverts now keep the road intact.
  — David Showers, Lance Brownfield/hot Springs Sentinel-Record, Arkansas Online, 12 May 2023
• Her vehicle left the road and struck a tree and culvert, and came to a stop in a creek bed, officials said.
  — Cincinnati.com, 4 Nov. 2017
• Assessing a culvert takes time.
  — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2026
• Pennington likened the woods around the area to a jungle, with cliff beds, sinkholes, caves and culverts.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 9 Sep. 2024
• The car hit a ditch and a culvert before flying into the air and landing in the ditch, troopers said.
  — Eric Besson, Arkansas Online, 10 Aug. 2020
• Rocks and a drainage culvert were added at the base of the slope, and the hillside was graded and covered with plastic tarps.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2024
• As a last resort, lie flat in the nearest depression, ditch or culvert and cover your head with your arms.
  — Jack Albright, jsonline.com, 24 July 2025
• As a last resort, lie flat in the nearest depression, ditch or culvert and cover your head with your arms.
  — David Clarey, jsonline.com, 14 Apr. 2026
• As a last resort, lie flat in the nearest depression, ditch or culvert and cover your head with your arms.
  — Cheyenne Derksen, Oklahoman, 8 Jan. 2026
• Roads and culverts modify how and where animals move.
  — Daniel T. Blumstein, The Conversation, 8 Apr. 2026
• Megan was frozen where she was found, lying on an incline near a drainage culvert and creek; about two inches of snow covered her body.
  — Brian Brant, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
• The city needs permission to build the trail through a culvert under the railroad tracks, Young said.
  — Nicholas Sakelaris, star-telegram.com, 26 Apr. 2017
• The motorcycle traveled off the road to the right and struck a culvert before coming to a rest.
  — Nyssa Kruse, Arkansas Online, 26 Dec. 2019
• The man ran from the wrecked sedan and hid in a nearby culvert, but a police dog led officers to him, Lt.
  — David Hernandez, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 Sep. 2017
• Crews will install a 6-foot culvert across both lanes to restore the creek to its natural channel.
  — Shannon Tyler, Idaho Statesman, 30 Sep. 2025