How to Use septic tank in a Sentence

septic tank

noun
  • How many loads of laundry a day are safe to do with a septic tank?
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 12 Apr. 2023
  • This will help reduce the risk of residue build-up in your septic tank.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Unbeknownst to her guests, the septic tank had been left open.
    — Lauren Caruba, ExpressNews.com, 8 Oct. 2019
  • And there will be special help for projects that need septic tank approvals.
    — Deborah Sullivan Brennan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2023
  • Many homes use rainwater-catch tanks and cesspools or septic tanks.
    — Caleb Jones, Fox News, 8 May 2018
  • And a septic tank bottom often costs less than a fiberglass pond.
    — Mia Taylor, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Over time, as people use their bathroom, methane builds up as the septic tank is filled.
    — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Fran Geisler and her husband will have to raise their house more than four feet and get an above-ground septic tank.
    — Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2019
  • The change reduces the minimum lot size allowed to have a septic tank from one acre to half an acre.
    — Aaron Sullivan, Austin American-Statesman, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Also the use of septic tanks for sewage poses a watershed threat.
    — Lara Korte, WSJ, 10 July 2018
  • Strong fumes, similar to those of a septic tank, were coming from the cistern.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2023
  • There were strong fumes, similar to those of a septic tank, coming from the cistern.
    — Nikki Dobrin, Peoplemag, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Some people didn’t have running water or septic tanks even before the fire.
    — Patrick Lohmann, ProPublica, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Court sides with Amish in a case that pits septic tank rules against religious beliefs.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2023
  • The city required that Mangione either fix the site’s septic tanks or close the park.
    — ExpressNews.com, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Which genus of Bannon emerges from this septic tank of self-reinvention?
    — Corey Seymour, Vogue, 27 Mar. 2019
  • Also, avoid putting it over or near a septic tank, leaching field, well head, or property line.
    — George Retseck, Popular Mechanics, 4 Jan. 2020
  • One wipe goes pretty far, and when finished, skip the trash can and flush it instead (the wipes will not harm septic tanks).
    — Catherine Garcia, theweek, 28 Aug. 2024
  • Her family had a small farm on the outskirts of the city of Kazan, and the farm had a small septic tank.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New York Review of Books, 9 Feb. 2022
  • In heavy rains, septic tanks overflow, flooding the streets and spreading disease.
    — Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Wade said the manhole on the septic tank had a plastic covering that wasn’t secured.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 2 Sep. 2021
  • The septic tank the company plans to build would pollute all the water downstream.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 June 2024
  • The septic tank must be installed to meet the code of the state Department of Health.
    — Sarah Fowler, The Seattle Times, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Leaky sewage pipes and septic tanks have long been a problem in the Little River area.
    — Claire Grunewald, Miami Herald, 19 June 2024
  • Nobody wants to play in the other baseball league two towns over because the drive is too long and the field is too close to a septic tank.
    — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Actually one of our leadership team members that made the call to drain the septic tank.
    — Steve Helling, PEOPLE.com, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Hewn from stone, the bathroom is a rectangular cabin with a carved toilet that stood over a deep septic tank.
    — Jack Guy, CNN, 6 Oct. 2021
  • In home that use septic tanks, prescription drugs that get flushed down the toilet can leach into the ground and seep into ground water.
    — Maria Clark, NOLA.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Other witnesses told police Snow said the septic tank at the house had backed up, which had caused a bad smell in the house, records said.
    — Ruth Ann Krause, Post-Tribune, 17 Oct. 2017
  • By then, investigators had checked Guthrie’s flat, whitewashed roof and probed her septic tank with a long pole.
    — Paige Williams, New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2026

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