How to Use sewage in a Sentence

sewage

noun

• The first of them was the sewage running in the street.
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 24 July 2023
• The landmark system removed 95% of the bacteria from the city’s sewage and 90% of the solids.
  — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2024
• The issue is that with so many new toilets, the sewage needs to go somewhere.
  — Oliver Franklin-Wallis, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2023
• Cracked walls, mold, sewage backups, even the risk of electric shock.
  — Chris Hacker, CBS News, 14 Sep. 2023
• Once landed, a truck connects to the tank, draws all the waste out and takes it to the local sewage system.
  — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 8 Mar. 2023
• But in the meantime, residents still have to deal with sewage spillage.
  — Josh Feldman, NBC News, 1 Oct. 2023
• Rio Verde Foothills doesn't have a sewage system or water mains.
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 16 Jan. 2023
• There were fires and a burst sewage pipe, forcing employees to wade through waste.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 16 Aug. 2023
• The places were affordable because there weren’t any perks: no sewage, no gas.
  — Curbed, 23 Dec. 2023
• The researchers stress that this does not mean people are getting sick from sewage in sea spray aerosol.
  — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 3 Mar. 2023
• To this day, when there are heavy rains and too much water flows into the sewers, raw sewage flows into the canal.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2024
• Al-Barbari said food and water are scarce, and his tent was even flooded with sewage.
  — Zoe Magee, ABC News, 10 Dec. 2023
• My neighbor’s sink overflowed with sewage a few weeks ago, bubbling over the rim of the sink and leaking onto the floor.
  — Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 21 Feb. 2023
• One quibble: When the waters are calm a distinct aroma, the area smells a little like sewage.
  — Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• At some moments, Collins’ efforts to hold truth to power seemed akin to trying to stop a burst sewage pipe with a wine cork.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 11 May 2023
• The new legislation could cost bosses who spill sewage in rivers, lakes, and seas their bonus.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 12 Feb. 2024
• If there's more rain than the ground or sewage can absorb, that extra water flows downhill — a flash flood.
  — Cara Korte, CBS News, 11 July 2023
• The tree removal is part of an effort to clean up sewage overflows from the Pleasant Run waterway that runs through the park.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Feb. 2024
• The boys had traveled 1,500 feet into the sewage system, officials said.
  — Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2023
• However, odors from the sewage are released outside during the flight.
  — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 8 Mar. 2023
• The Milwaukee River, which cut through the heart of downtown, was a dumping grounds for litter, runoff — even sewage.
  — Genevieve Redsten, Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2023
• The wall had holes, which were likely used as part of sewage or rainwater systems, experts said.
  — Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 23 Feb. 2024
• Money to treat sewage from Mexico and clean up San Diego’s beaches.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2023
• In the global north, sewage is a problem that many of us assumed was more or less fixed in Victorian times.
  — Oliver Franklin-Wallis, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2023
• And officials may need to constantly surveil sewage or airports for signs of new pathogens.
  — Markus Anderljung and Paul Scharre, Foreign Affairs, 14 Aug. 2023
• The slide shifts the land so much that most utilities can’t be buried underground, so the city has installed an eyesore: an above-ground sewage line that runs along the side of the road.
  — Jack Flemmingstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2023
• Roughly eight times a day, a truckload of sewage sludge, processed in part from human waste, is dropped at the site and converted to compost.
  — Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• The measure is the first in several years since the Legislature issued a statewide call for action on the sewage crisis.
  — Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Mar. 2024
• At another, less than a mile downstream, sewage spilled into the river for 19 hours in the same period.
  — Leila Sackur, NBC News, 1 Oct. 2023
• Reports of Tijuana sewage spewing into the South County region go back at least to the 1930s.
  — Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024