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Example sentences for "waterworks"

Lexicographically close words:
waterspouts; watertight; waterway; waterways; waterwheel; waterworn; watery; wath; wather; watir
  1. He is crazy about his organ, and thinks he ought to have a new one, or, at least, a waterworks to blow it, like what they have at Carisbury.

  2. He was superintendent of the Walla Walla waterworks for five years and figured prominently in connection with public affairs in this city.

  3. After lying buried in the earth for fifty or sixty years the wood pipe used in the Philadelphia waterworks was sold to Burlington, N.

  4. A few data regarding the use of wooden pipes might not be without interest, while at the same time pointing out the approximate dates when waterworks were constructed in several cities.

  5. The careless and haphazard scouting from the Waterworks and Boesman's Kop, in which he complacently trusted, had lured him on.

  6. When the patrol from the Waterworks to Boesman's Kop did not return in due course on the morning of March 31, its absence seems to have caused no anxiety to Amphlett.

  7. After reconnoitring the Waterworks and the Boer positions on the right bank of the Modder, Colvile came to the conclusion that he was not strong enough to attack them.

  8. She has the hardihood to tell us of the poor Dalmatians who were being bribed with waterworks and bridges and gratuitous doctoring.

  9. They also took possession of the waterworks of Santólan (near San Juan del Monte), but did not cut off the water-supply to the capital.

  10. Free water for private use from public waterworks is wasted; free meals and clothing to school-children are open to still greater abuses.

  11. Municipal ownership of waterworks is an extension of the same idea.

  12. On the contrary, monopoly, as before defined, may exist where the industry is small, as the waterworks in a small town, or a small factory for making patented articles.

  13. In small towns the public electric lighting and waterworks have been operated more economically under one roof.

  14. Waterworks and probably electric lighting, because of the comparative simplicity of their operation, are more suitable for public ownership than are gas-works.

  15. Pleasure grounds, tiny forests, and gardens of every kind surrounded it, and elaborate waterworks were built to give these grounds a never-failing freshness of appearance.

  16. With the aid of his great waterworks in the neighbourhood of the city, Solomon laid out all kinds of gardens and pleasure-grounds, the beauty of which was enhanced by the addition of fountains and artificial lakes (cp.

  17. The waterworks are situated very near the springs, from which they are only separated by a road, under which the collecting pipes run.

  18. The waterworks were opened in the autumn of 1881, and since then have constantly afforded an abundant supply of water.

  19. We now describe the new waterworks lately erected for supplying the town of Cougleton, Cheshire.

  20. The Diarist was too modest to add that the Waterworks which long supplied Wolverhampton with water were the property of Dr.

  21. The Fairhaven Waterworks System was a present from Mr. Rogers.

  22. The waterworks are owned and operated by the municipality.

  23. The municipality owns and operates the waterworks and the electric-lighting plant.

  24. Does the city own and operate its waterworks plant, or is the water supply furnished by a private company?

  25. Excellent waterworks were completed and iron pipes were laid throughout the walled town and Tulay for the use of the garrison and the public.

  26. A system of waterworks was put in and Jolo was declared an open port.

  27. The waterworks and electric-lighting plant are owned and operated by the municipality.

  28. The waterworks (direct pressure system) were acquired by the city in 1895.

  29. The municipality owns and operates the waterworks and an electric-lighting plant.

  30. The municipality owns and operates its waterworks and its electric-lighting plant.

  31. Since inauguration of the municipal gravity waterworks there have been no destructive fires.

  32. In case we get separated meet at the waterworks (vn').

  33. Give the method of reconnoitering the buildings at the waterworks and coal mine.

  34. Darkness was fast coming on, and as the batteries at the waterworks now opened fire upon the Egyptians, the latter ceased to press the retiring troops, who withdrew without further molestation to their position at Ramleh.

  35. Efficient waterworks had been constructed to provide pure water for the use of the city.

  36. The waterworks were stopped, and the city was left in darkness by the submergence of the gasworks.

  37. The people of St. Louis are supplied with water from the river, the waterworks being situated at Bissell's Point, three and one-half miles north of the court house.

  38. Almost all waterworks departments using chlorination have received complaints to the effect that the water had killed fish and small birds.

  39. One of the party expressed a desire for a drink of good river water without any hypochlorite in it and was served with water from the plant supply by an assistant engineer of the waterworks department.

  40. Farm waterworks should serve the house and the watering troughs under a pressure of at least 40 pounds at the ground level.

  41. The cost of farm waterworks depends principally on the amount of power developed.

  42. These different uses should all be credited to the farm waterworks system pro rata, according to the amounts used by the different departments of the farm.

  43. The tower is high, but it is dwarfed by the tower of the Grand Junction Waterworks near at hand.

  44. Here they would be upon a level with its highest point, and would command the waterworks by which most of the moats were fed.

  45. Beaten there the Assyrians would retire to the great walls, and the waterworks would fall into the hands of the besiegers.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "waterworks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aqueduct; bed; canal; culvert; flume; gulch; gully; race; runnel; sluice; spillway; swash; watercourse; waterway; waterworks; works