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sump - use in sentences
Converse of object
- dive: Simon Brooks dived the upstream sump at the end of the final passage.
- perch: In my minds eye the name Olly's perched sump ' were already written on the survey.
- bypass: One interesting prospect is the possibility of getting into a high level in Muxa, to bypass the sump.
- drain: It took a dozen cavers about eight hours to drain the sump of water.
- reach: Reached sump via 75 ' pitch down boulder slope.
Adjective modifier
- upstream: Simon Brooks dived the upstream sump at the end of the final passage.
- downstream: Alan Clegg was drowned in Lancaster Hole downstream sump.
- static: A third way on from the small chamber is a small tubular passage which emerges in a larger boulder chamber with a static sump.
- terminal: Eventually seven cavers gathered at the terminal sump to watch Rick assemble his swag.
- dry: Cars using slick tires must be fitted with a dry sump.
Modifies a noun
- lubrication: The Pegaso engine uses Aprilia's acclaimed dry sump lubrication system.
- bypass: We searched the main chamber for a possible sump bypass.
- plug: The sump plug will be missing, believed dead.
- pool: The sump pool in Wilf Taylor's Passage is usually static.
- pump: Marine Setup for sale 4ft tank with 3ft sump, sump pump, overflow b.. .
- hose: Many Hotpoint washing machines have a filter inside the sump hose which gets blocked.
Noun used with modifier
- radon: What is a radon sump in a new building?
- inlet: The water emerges from a low crawl over boulders to the left which can be followed for 60m to an inlet sump.
- terminal: The terminal sump is in the pool, which contains a muddy ledge on the right hand side.
- mud: A bug hunting trip as far as the mud sump.
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