How to Use manhole in a Sentence

manhole

noun
  • Slice was about the size of a manhole cover.
    — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2025
  • There was a manhole cover in a garage.
    — Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2026
  • The city then moved to weld the manhole cover shut.
    — Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Crews dug out manholes so that the street could begin to drain.
    — Gino Vicci, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The young man in black climbed down the manhole’s footholds and flicked on a penlight.
    — Suzanne Sataline, Quartz, 30 Nov. 2019
  • The man climbs out of a manhole, as if sneaking into her dream.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 15 Jan. 2021
  • He had been pulled into the drainage system and emerged out of a manhole.
    — Topher Sanders, ProPublica, 9 Dec. 2021
  • The ravine runs across half of the street from the manhole cover to the sidewalk.
    — John Thompson, ajc, 2 July 2017
  • The manhole fire caused smoke to drift across the downtown area, Weaver said.
    — Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2022
  • About two-thirds of the way up the block in the near, downtown lane was a manhole cover.
    — Richard Brookhiser, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Just make sure to talk to a park ranger before attempting to open the manhole.
    — Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian, 8 Mar. 2017
  • Same for the many drains and manhole covers on the innermost lane.
    — Diana Budds, Curbed, 17 Sep. 2021
  • That’s the sound of someone stepping on the manhole cover above.
    — Ingrid Rojas Contreras, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2023
  • There were comedic, staged views, like one showing a maid sneaking out of her house via manhole to see her lover.
    — Clive Thompson, Smithsonian, 30 Sep. 2017
  • Tire marks were shown on the grass, at one point crossing over a storm water manhole just a few feet from crash site.
    — Kim Hyatt, Star Tribune, 26 July 2021
  • The trucks suck sewage out of manholes and drive to parts of the sewer system that aren’t already full.
    — Brittany Wallman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 2 Nov. 2017
  • This is the second theft involving copper wire and a manhole in the span of three months.
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Crews found a nearby manhole had a ladder coming out of it and wires were exposed.
    — Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The firefighters managed to pull the children and pets out through a manhole in the street.
    — Sam Gillette, People.com, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Sewage lapped over the top of manhole covers, streaming into the roads after heavy rains.
    — Brittany Wallman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 23 Jan. 2018
  • The utility said those manhole fires were triggered by melting snow from last week's storm.
    — Lisa Rozner, CBS News, 3 Feb. 2026
  • In some cases, raw sewage poured out of manholes, covered roads and seeped into driveways and swales.
    — USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2017
  • Someone had the idea of a camera dropping down through a manhole and into the sewer.
    — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Loennecker assisted the children out of the tube and up and out of the manhole.
    — Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2023
  • City workers took the manhole covers off to try to mitigate some of the flooding.
    — Mohammed Kloub, chicagotribune.com, 26 Dec. 2017
  • Some manholes have built-in ladders, but this one, evidently, did not.
    — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 22 May 2026
  • For two months, crews worked and were able to install stormwater drainage structures, catch basins, manholes and pipes along the two roads.
    — Erin Yarnall, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Wade said the manhole on the septic tank had a plastic covering that wasn’t secured.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Milton Berle’s car stalled over a manhole cover, which then blew with the force of a geyser and ruined his car.
    — Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
  • But now and then, here and there, one of the pipes springs a leak and the escaping steam billows up through the nearest manhole.
    — Patrick McGeehan, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024

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