storm drain

noun

: a drain that carries water (such as rainwater) away from a street, parking lot, etc.

Examples of storm drain in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web About 100 yards up and down the coast from the Pico-Kenter storm drain at Santa Monica State Beach. —

Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2024 The 10-year-old boy who was swept away in a storm drain in Tennessee on May 8 has died, according to his father. —

Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 19 May 2024 After a heavy summer rainstorm in 2022, a century-old underground storm drain collapsed along East North Avenue, on the north side of Green Mount Cemetery, causing the sinkhole beneath Bell’s home. —

Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 6 Mar. 2024 The law is a response to the November 2023 death of an 8-year-old Wichita police dog who was strangled to death after following the suspect into a storm drain. —

Jenna Barackman, Kansas City Star, 22 Apr. 2024 That one allowed quick repairs to a storm drain pipe along Carlsbad Village Drive near Pontiac Drive, where the combination of intense rain, debris flow and intrusive tree roots caused erosion that threatened to undermine the road. —

Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2024 Eventually, that sewage entered a storm drain system, which flowed through a pipe that discharged the wastewater about a mile offshore. —

Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024 At another point, he was seen placing a FedEx envelope into a storm drain. —

Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 2 Mar. 2024 Authorities found Butler’s body in a storm drain near the school’s gymnasium. —

Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 3 Mar. 2024

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