sewage
IPA: sˈuʌdʒ
noun
- A suspension of water and solid waste, transported by sewers to be disposed of or processed.
- (obsolete) sewerage.
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Examples of "sewage" in Sentences
- Imagine the inspiration when the sewage is running.
- All the wiring for power, water and sewage is in place.
- I mean the evil librarians and supermodel baggin sewage department are gold.
- High rises waste tremendous amounts of energy and probably strain sewage and other facilities.
- Unfortunately very little sewage is treated here in Xalapa, but a very large plant was inaugurated about 3 months ago.
- The city forms its poisons which we call sewage and the body its poisons, which we call excreta (or carbonic acid, urea, uric acid, faeces, etc.)
- Gas from sewage is just one part of a bigger project, which will see us using brewery and food waste and farm slurry to generate gas to heat homes.
- The term sewage many years ago was rightly applied to the excremental refuse of towns, but it is a most difficult matter to define the liquid that teems into our rivers under the name of sewage to-day; in most towns "chemical refuse" is the best name for the complex fluid running from the sewers.
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