Collocations for "sewage"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "sewage" in context.
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sewage
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- [household, public, residential, industrial, community, urban] sewage
- sewage from the [factory, neighborhood]
- backed-up sewage [flowed, ran] in the streets
- [deposits, sludges, flows, discharges] of sewage
- a [plant, facility] to treat raw sewage
- was covered in sewage
- the [filtering, depositing, cleaning, treatment] of sewage
- the [stench, smell, reek] of sewage
- the [pouring, dumping] of sewage
- sewage from [vessels, ships, boats, planes]
- pump sewage [through, into, past]
- a [container, system] to hold the sewage
- sewage [disposal, treatment]
- a blocked sewage [pipe, filter, drain]
- works at a sewage [plant, site]
- [a modern, an outdated] sewage system
'sewage' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):