How to Use sewage in a Sentence

sewage

noun
  • When did the sewage spill start?
    — Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Raw sewage doesn’t just smell bad.
    — ABC News, 16 Apr. 2026
  • One said his cell was dirty and had a strong smell of sewage.
    — Mauricio Torres, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The sewage line from the house to the tank was almost flat.
    — Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 14 Mar. 2026
  • But none of this cow waste goes through sewage treatment plants.
    — jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Old ships can have sewage and/or smoke issues and creak at all times.
    — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Sep. 2025
  • And sewage is just a fraction of the problem.
    — Letters To The Editor, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2026
  • That is until there is sewage running down the streets.
    — Jenny Staletovich, Miami Herald, 10 Mar. 2026
  • At the bottom, a river of raw sewage moved north.
    — Eric Klinenberg, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
  • But testing sewage might have raised the alarm much sooner.
    — Jeremy C. Kourvelas, Washington Post, 27 May 2026
  • Houses have been filled with sewage that spewed out of manholes.
    — New York Times, 24 July 2022
  • Some of these compounds along with sewage ends up in certain rivers.
    — Ari Daniel, NPR, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The sewage stink had been a subject of complaints for more than three years.
    — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 17 Sep. 2021
  • The sky cracks, streams of light pour over the busted sewage pipe, and then the sky dumps rain.
    — Hazlitt, 29 May 2024
  • The city oversees two sewage districts.
    — Stacy Brandt, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The Buscadores think the smell might be sewage, but wish to dig to make sure.
    — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 26 June 2026
  • That stuff that can't be replaced, just because of what it was soaked in—sewage.
    — Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Strong winds and the pull of the boats caused the cruise ship to rock and raw sewage to spill onto the floors.
    — Emily Blackwood, People.com, 25 June 2025
  • And then the sewage system can just deal with the sewage and not have to deal with the stormwater.
    — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Aug. 2024
  • There is no black mold, no sewage and no mildew anywhere in the property.
    — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 5 Dec. 2025
  • The issue is that with so many new toilets, the sewage needs to go somewhere.
    — Oliver Franklin-Wallis, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2023
  • How have the odors from sewage flows affected your daily life and health?
    — Walker Armstrong, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Near the coast, heavy rains caused sewage to bubble out of underground pipes.
    — Jay Reeves, chicagotribune.com, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Questions mixed in the air with the smells of sewage and dust kicked up by bulldozers.
    — New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Around the world, treated sewage solids are still commonly burned or buried.
    — Bryn Nelson, CNN, 6 Sep. 2022
  • There were fires and a burst sewage pipe, forcing employees to wade through waste.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 16 Aug. 2023
  • But its waters are no longer clean enough to drink after years of sewage waste discharge.
    — Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Snell said students didn’t have access to any of the areas where there was sewage.
    — Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Brisket fell 15 feet into the well, which was filled with oil and sewage water.
    — Emily Harter, Kansas City Star, 6 July 2026
  • This has all led to plenty of sewage in the streets — the perfect recipe for the spread of polio.
    — Ari Daniel, NPR, 13 Sep. 2024

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