sump

• It was too hard to tell precisely where they were, in the midst of such ruin, but the sump should be almost directly below. —  Asimov's Science Fiction [2001.04]
• Jim shouted, as much for the sump's occupants as the workers, "Stand clear!" —  Asimov's Science Fiction [2001.04]
• She and Jim climbed down among the severed utility pipes and shone their flashlights into the sump, and their beams glinted off the upturned faces of four very dirty, shivering people: the UrsulaMeriwether sisters, and a JennaByron—one of the clone-siblings assumed dead. —  Asimov's Science Fiction [2001.04]
• Its water poured into a sump, one of the cavernous tanks that had been excavated to give the city a margin of safety, in case of real trouble with the drainage pumps. —  Pohl, Frederik ; Williamson, Jack - [Undersea 03] - Undersea City [MNQ]
• We hid the reactors in the drainage sump, along with the MOLE itself, until the time was right to put John's theories into practice. —  Pohl, Frederik ; Williamson, Jack - [Undersea 03] - Undersea City [MNQ]

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