A drainpipe was blown off a wall like papier-mAch6. From Wordnik.com. [The Season of the Machete]
As he worked, a drainpipe in the pit became clogged. From Wordnik.com. [This Just In: Indiana to Pop Giant Crap Bubbles on Thursday] Reference
I was as stiff as the drainpipe that gargled embalming fluid. From Wordnik.com. [Another Roadside Attraction]
He'd scaled a wall and a drainpipe, evading alarms and guards. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 25, 2009] Reference
The men went out the window, over the roof and down a drainpipe. From Wordnik.com. [A Final Mission] Reference
His feet slip on the drainpipe, his hands can't reach the ledge. From Wordnik.com. [Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency]
At the top of the window frame we could see an uprooted drainpipe. From Wordnik.com. [The War of the Worlds] Reference
It was a piece of drainpipe with a rough rim at the edge of the hole. From Wordnik.com. [Six Little Bunkers at Mammy June's] Reference
A squealing gray form scurried out, vanishing down a nearby drainpipe. From Wordnik.com. [Curse of the Shadowmage]
This was to discourage rats, who could slither up the drainpipe at night. From Wordnik.com. [Singularities And the Circle Of Convergence] Reference
Standing on blocks of broken concrete, they set up beneath the drainpipe. From Wordnik.com. [On Fly Casting's Urban Frontier, the Fish Are Big, the Water's Dirty] Reference
The water gurgled back down a whimsical drainpipe, a grotesque fish face. From Wordnik.com. [do you ever read writing?] Reference
He had walked away, toward an embankment of soft earth, near a drainpipe for rain. From Wordnik.com. [Jurassic Park]
He was two stories up but there was a drainpipe \expndtw0 next to the window. \cf0\par. From Wordnik.com. [Poem About Never Growing Up] Reference
Its roof was within reach of the lower upstairs window which was near the drainpipe …. From Wordnik.com. [The Vatican Rip]
It sounded as if we were speaking to each other from opposite ends of a long drainpipe. From Wordnik.com. [Will]
Like me, he was in black -- his usual drainpipe trousers with a sweater and suede shoes. From Wordnik.com. [John]
He once turned up to a smart party in a badly fitting check suit with drainpipe trousers. From Wordnik.com. [Bravo-Two-Zero]
He had better luck, coming away with photographs of the historic drainpipe still doing its job. From Wordnik.com. [Herne Hill revival would be perfect legacy of the 1948 Austerity Games] Reference
He screwed her in an alley with her skirt up and his pants down while she hung onto a drainpipe. From Wordnik.com. [The Obsession of Bentley Squeamish] Reference
Day 9 My girlfriend informs me that there's a black widow nesting in a drainpipe near our garage. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of a Self-Help Dropout: Flirting With the 4-Hour Workweek] Reference
SCHULTE: But there's a little -- a drainpipe or something from the air conditioner, I think it is. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 2, 2006] Reference
Beneath the snake of the drainpipe were boxes of tissues and rolls of plastic-wrapped toilet paper. From Wordnik.com. [Devil's Waltz]
There was a drainpipe running up the wall just outside, the west wing's flat roof a few feet above. From Wordnik.com. [Quite Ugly One Morning]
Popeye returned to the pleasure house at midnight, shimmied up a drainpipe, and vaulted onto the balcony. From Wordnik.com. [THE PREVIOUS ADVENTURES OF POPEYE THE SAILOR] Reference
At that they all saw his legs -- at least, as much of them as were poked out of the mouth of the drainpipe. From Wordnik.com. [Six Little Bunkers at Mammy June's] Reference
About the time he'd be heading home, I'd climb up the drainpipe onto the roof out of our house and watch for him. From Wordnik.com. [‘Mister B. Gone’] Reference
“The garden, at any rate … He thinks he must have climbed up to the second floor by means of the drainpipe.”. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret in Holland]
It seems that when there was no answer, O'Toole scrambled up the drainpipe, knocked on the window and gained entry. From Wordnik.com. [&Quot;There Is A Legend. And To Protest Is Daft.&] Reference
And that's pretty much what happens throughout this funny book, starting off with Rory getting stuck in a drainpipe. From Wordnik.com. [In 'Finally,' a tween heroine can't wait to grow up] Reference
The trench is backfilled first by covering the drainpipe with topsoil which was laid separately alongside the trench. From Wordnik.com. [1.1. Survey of local conditions and site reconnaissance] Reference
Eventually, the retirees from Watford, England, reached their goal: a 2. 5cm-by-5cm plastic box attached by magnets to a drainpipe. From Wordnik.com. [Tip Sheet] Reference
He was supp6sed to climb up to the window on the first floor, by scaling a drainpipe a few yards along to a ledge that ran above it. From Wordnik.com. [Boiling a Frog]
When Harris did try to climb, he got about only four stories up before the drainpipe broke away from the wall, leaving him in midair. From Wordnik.com. [&Quot;There Is A Legend. And To Protest Is Daft.&] Reference
In a 1967 comic, dressed in a smart purple suit with drainpipe pants, Archie is proud of his fashionable, Carnaby Street – inspired look. From Wordnik.com. [Archie: American Idol] Reference
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