All culvertsand bridges were examined, described, and their condition noted.
There was danger of cutting your feet on the broken glass and crockery which people threw into the Hydraulic, and though the edges of the culverts were good for jumping off of, the boys did not find them of much practical value.
A total of ninety-five bridges and fifteen culverts were designed by the Bridge Department, of which fifty-nine bridges and eleven culverts have been constructed.
Work covered by the contract was for grading and macadamizing, culverts and bridges.
Two of these were for box culverts for the Pacific Highway about five miles north of Corvallis.
But in many places the track had been torn up, and culverts destroyed, and when we came to one of these breaks, the train had to stop until our engineers could repair it, and then we went on.
All three junctions with their intervening lines of rail, bridges, culverts and all, are little over fifty miles from the Orange River, which hereabout forms the boundary separating Cape Colony from the Free State.
At the same time they destroyed a couple of culverts and tore up three hundred yards of the permanent way.
It was amazing to note the shattered culverts as one passed, and yet to be overtaken by trains within a day.
It is in every respect a well constructed work, with substantial locks, culvertsand viaducts.
Culverts in the side walls of the entrance enable water to be admitted for filling the dock to let the vessel out.
They would blow up a dozen on every one of the railroads mentioned, and bridges and culverts and trestles.
This was done by a Winnipeg manufacturer of metal culverts after the following plan: "Last May a firm manufacturing metal goods attempted to enter the culvert field in Western Canada.
Take a sledge hammer the next time you see one of our culverts and prove to yourself the task that would be before you to bend our culverts.
The farmer who receives such a letter, if not entirely convinced, is at least reasonably certain to make an investigation before placing an order with the firm selling culvertsthat can be bent by hand.
At proper intervals, on the slopes of hills, drains or paved catch-waters must be made across the road, when the cost of constructing culverts would render their use inexpedient.
The culvertsare too few and small, particularly on the long slopes; and the manner of constructing the hollow-ways and catch-waters is defective.
Act of April 1st requires supervisors of highways to make paved valleys or stone culverts where other roads intersect the Cumberland Road and this act also signifies the State's acceptance of the road from the General Government.
The masonry of the culverts and some of the bridges must be finished in time, including the filling to make good the roadway, to permit the contractor for grading to comply with his agreement.
The culverts are to be cleared out, and so adjusted as to allow the free passage of all water that may tend to cross the road.
The bottoms of the culverts to be paved or flagged with stone, and such an apron constructed at each end as to guard against the ends being undermined by the passage of the water.
He had seen what dynamite applied to culverts and bridges could do, and doubtless fully measured the indignity of so disentegrating, not to say violent, a manner of quitting this world for a good one.
Embankments: size; how made; slope; if provided with culverts and size of these.
He also sent a division along the James River Canal to destroy locks, culverts etc.
All bridges and culverts had been destroyed between Nashville and Decatur, and thence to Stevenson, where the Memphis and Charleston and the Nashville and Chattanooga roads unite.
Many surrenders took place, and some blowing up of culverts by those who were retreating in disgust at the defeat at Almond's Nek, a defeat which they considered the worst disaster to their arms that had yet occurred.
Trains were now able to run from Natal to Greylingstad, though beyond that place there were still damaged culverts and ruined rails.
Culverts and bridges, telegraph lines and posts, disappeared like the smoke of their burning.
Road is in good condition, low hedges and barbed wire fences, stone culverts and no bridges in the two miles.
Besides these, various other smaller bridges andculverts had been blown up.
Gullies began to race, culverts to choke, creeks to tumble, rivers to madden.
Cutbill read him thoroughly; but though Lord Culdufif saw this, it did not prevent him trying all his little pretty devices of pleasing on the man of culverts and cuttings.
A collapsible center or core for bridges, culverts and sewers is fully illustrated with detailed instructions for building.
As a great part of the railroad passes through the lake, culverts of reinforced concrete are provided to equalize the water on both sides of the embankments.
Just after midnight the Boers again aroused us by discharging all their guns into the forts or the town, and again the people hurried away to their caves and culverts for protection.
The ends of bridges and culverts were closed up with sandbags and stones.
Your father's turning out culverts like a poet, there'll be more than I ever thought.
No Boers were seen about Belmont, though they had left traces of their presence in broken culverts and other damage to the railway.
On the 22nd, culverts north of Tweedale siding were repaired, and an obstruction on the line was removed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "culverts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
