Crossword-Solution: DRAINPIPES
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| Fixtures below sinks | 1 answer |
| Rain channels | 1 answer |
| Refuse transports | 1 answer |
| Tapered trousers | 1 answer |
| Downspouts | 2 answers |
| Water conduits | 4 answers |
| Water carriers | 8 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with DRAINPIPES (5)
The drainpipes from the roof have decayed to such a degree that in some instances as little as a quarter of the pipe remains.
Their operations extended all over the town: at all hours of the day they were to be seen either going or returning from “jobs”, carrying ladders, planks, pots of paint, pails of whitewash, earthenware, chimney pots, drainpipes, lengths of guttering, closet pans, grates, bundles of wallpaper, buckets of paste, sacks of cement, and loads of bricks and mortar.
Thirdly, it must be perfectly ventilated--not the drainpipes merely,--but the room itself in summer and in winter.
What is there to prevent the water from passing out of that drain in its progress, at every point of the tiles, and so saturating the breadth below it? Drainpipes afford the same facility for water to soak out at the lower side, as to enter on the upper, and there is the same law of gravitation to operate in each case.
Now, there is the same pressure of water to enter the vacuum in the pipe-drain, as there is against the hatches, supposing the land to be full to the surface." We do not find any intimation that there is any error in the view advanced by the learned gentleman quoted; and if there is none, we have an explanation of the faculty which water seems to have, of finding its way into drainpipes.
Quotes with DRAINPIPES (2)
I glance at my boots. They are big and clumsy, the breeches are tucked into them, and standing up one looks well-built and powerful in those great drainpipes. But when we go bathing and strip, suddenly we have slender legs again and slight shoulders. We are no longer soldiers but little more than boys; no one would believe that we could carry packs. It is a strange moment when we stand naked; then we become civilians, and almost feel ourselves to be so. When bathing Franz Kem…
The male frog, in mating season," said Crake, "makes as much noise as it can. The females are attracted to the male frog with the biggest, deepest voice because it suggests a more powerful frog, one with superior genes. Small male frogs - it's been documented - discover that if they position themselves in empty drainpipes, the pipe acts as a voice amplifier, and the small frog appears much larger than it really is.""So?""So that's what art is, for the artist," said Crake. "An…
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1979–2014).