culvert

Near Amsterdam, for example, engineers have built extra culverts into some of the dikes meant to protect the city from storm surges, planning for a future where extra pump stations would need them to face a rising ocean.

In central Pennsylvania we got caught in a summer thunderstorm that soaked us immediately and sent runoff boiling out of culverts and sheeting down hillsides.

She was driving to meet a reporter waiting in an Oklahoma City motel when she crashed into the concrete wing wall of a culvert.

A culvert packed with explosives presents a particularly dangerous and challenging problem.

A "culvert" is a bridge of small span giving passage to drainage.

"I don't know—I couldn't see—we ran into a culvert," replied Maud.

There was a shrieking streak of white and he disappeared under a culvert.

By these hornbeam trees a little streamlet flows out from the copse and under the road by a culvert.

Under the natural culvert, formed by the trunk fallen across, they cast their lines, using flies from their hook.