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Recent Examples of standpipeTwo 155-foot-tall standpipes, or cylindrical water tanks, were built at the northeast corner and the 5-acre parcel on which they’re located will remain under commission ownership.—Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 1 July 2025 Its caretakers had firefighting equipment, hoses and standpipes at the ready to draw water across different points of the property.—Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025 My favorite subject by far has been standpipes, those systems that supply water to a building in case of fire.—James Barron, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025 But firefighters discovered that there was no standpipe on the interior of the building — a violation of the state fire code.—Ames Alexander, Charlotte Observer, 14 May 2024 See All Example Sentences for standpipe
Those hydrants were at Lehigh Avenue at Churchill Street, Lehigh Avenue at Dempster Street, the north side of Dempster Street halfway between Lehigh Avenue and Birch Avenue, and Dempster Street at Birch Avenue, the Facebook post states.
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Jessi Virtusio,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Aug. 2025
If the park is not available, Cal Fire could still pick up water at the park’s hydrants to fill their trucks and dump their gray water left over from showers and kitchen sinks at the park for a fee, Wolski said.
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Julie Gallant,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 Aug. 2025
The drain doesn’t drain more than maybe a centimeter an hour.
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Ivy Scott,
Kansas City Star,
11 Sep. 2025
Rising distributor 1-2 Special’s flagship release started its journey at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, where Dillane won best actor out of Un Certain Regard for his portrayal of a London rough sleeper circling the drain of his own self-destruction.
Marketing must shift from campaign execution to commercial system design, from MQL handoffs to full-funnel revenue ownership and from static planning to adaptive iteration.
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Cameron Partridge,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
Use a funnel to fill the feeder to avoid drips and spills on the exterior.
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Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
2 Sep. 2025
As environmental regulations limit the toxic output from smokestacks and tail pipes, particulate matter that could be absorbing or blocking incoming sunlight is being eliminated, leading to gradually warmer oceans.
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Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
5 Sep. 2025
On a macro scale, that effect has been well-documented by photographers, with aerial shots of waterways clogged with plastic, the scars on barren land from deforestation and countless smokestacks spewing pollution into the air.
Peels can create a huge mess in the drainpipes down the road.
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Melissa Locker,
Southern Living,
21 Aug. 2025
The rattlesnake named Gertrude, or Gertie, took shelter in the opening of a drainpipe earlier this summer and gave birth around late July or early August at the University of Michigan’s Matthaei Botanical Gardens, the Detroit Free Press previously reported.
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