🇬🇧 Sewer meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A sewer is a large pipe, usually deep under the ground, that carries dirty water and toilet waste away from houses, schools, and other buildings. When you flush the toilet or water goes down the drain, it travels through smaller pipes and then into the sewer. The sewer takes all this dirty water to a special cleaning place, called a treatment plant, where the water is cleaned so it doesn’t harm people, animals, or the environment. Sewers help keep our streets, homes, and drinking water clean and safe.

The sewer under our street probably knows more family secrets than our group chat.

The superhero plumber in my comic used the sewer as his fastest shortcut to save the day—and avoid traffic.

Our dog sniffed the sewer grate and then looked at us like, “Who cooked that terrible soup?”

When Dad talked about how the sewer system works, I decided the city has the world’s biggest toilet maze.

In some old cities, sewers were once used as secret passageways—imagine spies sneaking around while holding their noses!

A dog slipped; its paw fell through a storm drain into the sewer. The neighbor lifted the sewer cover and shone a light down the dark sewer. Down below, a narrow line of water ran in the sewer while the dog yelped. He climbed in, grabbed the shaking dog from the sewer, and hugged it safe.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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