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  • noun Plural form of waterline.

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Examples

  • Projects to build utility infrastructure, such as waterlines and sewerlines, typically are paid for with bonds.

    Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Local News By DEAN RADFORD / RENTON REPORTER 2010

  • After sufficient cooling was achieved in each fifty-foot block, its waterlines were filled with pressurized grout and the slot concreted to the top of that level, like a zipper slowly being pulled closed.

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • After sufficient cooling was achieved in each fifty-foot block, its waterlines were filled with pressurized grout and the slot concreted to the top of that level, like a zipper slowly being pulled closed.

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • Hubs was worried that the quake might heave the ground somewhat and he was concerned about the waterlines and the wells, but everything's fine.

    Archive 2009-10-01 Gumbo Lily 2009

  • Hubs told me that back in the late 60's there was a quake that caved in the wells and waterlines.

    Anticipation.... Gumbo Lily 2009

  • Hubs was worried that the quake might heave the ground somewhat and he was concerned about the waterlines and the wells, but everything's fine.

    Anticipation.... Gumbo Lily 2009

  • Running shifting waterlines along scalloped coasts adds miles to a journey.

    Caught inside an electrical storm, a terrible beauty is born 2008

  • Are rising or receding waterlines affecting your life?

    Mary Lou Song: The Great Mud Hole of Georgia 2008

  • You think of cables and everything from electric to waterlines and gas lines, and of that that runs through a building, and this is -- this operation is just getting under way, believe me.

    CNN Transcript May 30, 2008 2008

  • Whole areas of Gentilly and Lakeview - standard-issue middle and upper middle class neighborhoods - are shells, houses with waterlines yet to be repaired.

    Jane Ciabattari: Thinking About New Orleans #9: Jason Berry 2008

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