culverts

plural of culvert

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Noun
  • Scott Gordon, chief of water enforcement for EPA’s regional office at the time, toured the site in 2000 and said he was shocked by how the industrial water found its path into the river, sometimes through gullies cut by the flow.
    DYLAN JACKSON, ABC News, 6 May 2026
  • Authorities say the mountain sees about a dozen rescues and one fatality per year, with slip-and-falls in steep gullies being a common danger.
    Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Police and fire rescue experts say this is also serves a reminder to always wear personal flotation devices in and around rivers, creeks, ditches and lakes.
    Dillon Thomas, CBS News, 4 June 2026
  • They're mostly found in the swamps, sloughs, wetlands, and drainage ditches of the western coastal plain, and are occasionally found around rivers and lakes.
    Jack Armstrong, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 3 June 2026
Noun
  • The gardens were developed in the 1930s on a site featuring natural ravines, now crossed by suspension bridges and laced with trails.
    Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 23 June 2026
  • The face of the moon never looks the same from one night to the next, as the shifting angle between the moon and sun causes sunlight to sweep across its surface, altering the shadows cast by craters, mountain ranges and ravines.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 23 May 2026
Noun
  • Descaling and Unclogging Uses Use cleaning vinegar to unclog stubborn drains by adding 1 cup of baking soda to your drain followed by 1 cup of cleaning vinegar, says Dills.
    Alexandra Kelly, Martha Stewart, 25 Jan. 2026
  • Below, San Angelo gives us several methods for cleaning bathroom sink drains, her best tips on how to avoid a clogged bathroom sink, and what to avoid when cleaning your bathroom sink drain.
    Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The research team plans to return to the Diamantina Fracture Zone to survey the rest of the trench in the hopes of finding more whale fossils and new forms of life, and the discovery raises the possibility of learning more about whale evolution by exploring the ocean’s other deep-sea trenches.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 June 2026
  • Similar hard-substrate communities were also observed on rocks in the Aleutian, Kuril‑Kamchatka, Atacama, Puysegur, Atacama, and Mussau trenches.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 28 May 2026
Noun
  • Constructing protective structures such as levees and dikes can help, as can preserving natural landscapes, such as wetlands and estuaries that can act as a natural sponge to absorb floodwaters, in and near the cities, Shao and her colleagues wrote.
    Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The dikes would consist of walls surrounding the city, separating it from the lagoon, Lionello said.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 16 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Others had fascia boards removed and gutters ripped.
    David Ferrara, Cincinnati Enquirer, 19 June 2026
  • Clean your gutters regularly, too, because these can become sources of standing water.
    Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 17 June 2026
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“Culverts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/culverts. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.

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