How to Use drainpipe in a Sentence

drainpipe

noun

• Peels can create a huge mess in the drainpipes down the road.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 7 Dec. 2024
• Peels can create a huge mess in the drainpipes down the road.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 15 Dec. 2025
• Peels can create a huge mess in the drainpipes down the road.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 25 Jan. 2026
• Peels can create a huge mess in the drainpipes down the road.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 21 Aug. 2025
• Then, turn on the faucet to fill the drainpipe and bottom of the sink with water.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 25 Aug. 2020
• Install an air-gap catch basin on the unit and run a full-size drainpipe to the nearest floor drain.
  — Merle Henkenius, Popular Mechanics, 25 June 2021
• Loosen the two compression fittings that hold the trap to the drainpipe.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 10 Aug. 2021
• Fagan climbed the palace walls, scaled a drainpipe, and entered through a window.
  — Lia Beck, refinery29.com, 16 Nov. 2020
• Baltazar then ran from police and hid in a drainpipe before he was found and arrested.
  — Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2019
• And a discharge hose runs from the softener tank to a nearby drainpipe or drywell.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 7 Feb. 2022
• And a discharge hose runs from the softener tank to a nearby drainpipe or drywell.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 7 Feb. 2022
• And when family and friends were helping paint my home, the drainpipe broke off my utility sink.
  — Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 28 Feb. 2023
• The single piece of prime real estate for perching is the upper side of a drainpipe that juts through the sea wall.
  — Kevin Spear, OrlandoSentinel.com, 10 May 2018
• Staff believed Inky climbed out through the gap in his tank lid, made his way across the aquarium floor and located a drainpipe.
  — Samantha Agate, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Apr. 2026
• Wet coffee grounds can easily clog your drainpipes, leading to costly repairs.
  — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Mar. 2025
• In the basement of his childhood home, his dad installed a full-size basketball rim positioned on a pole down in the drainpipe.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 2 May 2023
• Wet coffee grounds can easily clog your drainpipes, leading to costly repairs.
  — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Apr. 2026
• Inky the octopus was never found after his daring drainpipe getaway.
  — Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 20 Apr. 2026
• Make sure the discharge pipe is lined up properly and connect your drainpipes—use a T-pipe before your P-trap.
  — Elizabeth Gulino, House Beautiful, 20 Aug. 2019
• In his scheme, an array of long vertical tubes, hanging like drainpipes from enormous floating rings, reach down into the cold water.
  — National Geographic, 13 Oct. 2017
• The volume of water and its movement through the sand requires 17 miles of perforated drainpipe.
  — Bradley S. Klein, WSJ, 17 June 2022
• However, while the drainpipe seems like a bottomless whirlpool, the hole is actually about 20 feet deep.
  — Jennifer Adler, National Geographic, 27 June 2019
• To release the stopper, disconnect the rods, then unscrew the nut where the horizontal rod enters the drainpipe.
  — New York Times, 5 Dec. 2020
• So for Inky the octopus, a drainpipe was simply another opening to explore.
  — Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 20 Apr. 2026
• One newspaper describes them scaling the drainpipe and entering through an apartment window.
  — Brett Forrest, WIRED, 1 Aug. 2006
• Who wanted to hear about a bunch of pretentious kids in leather jackets and drainpipe trousers playing guitars (ugh, so declassé) in sleazy punk dives after midnight?
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2022
• The condensate line drains condensation from the overflow pan to the outside or directly into a drainpipe.
  — Joe Truini, Popular Mechanics, 4 May 2017
• The cause of the sinkhole had not been determined, but a leaky drainpipe under the pavement might be responsible, Wonder said.
  — Kim Christensen, latimes.com, 9 June 2017
• At the same time, growers continue to use less freshwater for irrigation and draw more water recycled from city drainpipes.
  — Nathanael Johnson, WIRED, 24 May 2018
• The drainpipe led to the waters of Hawke’s Bay, on the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island.
  — Samantha Agate, Charlotte Observer, 20 Apr. 2026