Examples of “fatberg” in a Sentence

noun A huge solid mass of fat and rubbish that blocks a sewer.

• Months ago a tunnel was clogged with a fatberg. It took a team of workers a month to move it. — Carlos J. Cortes, The Prisoner (2009)
• Thames Water has become the latest object lesson in the predictable and predicted folly of privatised monopolies, aided by a regulator that’s an even bigger wet wipe than the fatbergs bunging up the sewers. — Marina Hyde, The tide is coming in fast on Rishi Sunak – and it’s full of sewage (2023)
• Then I worked in the sewers of Manchester – a six month stint of that, jabbing pressure-water-poles at fatbergs, tonnes of used kebab grease and congealed sump oil, woven together with thousands of used wet wipes. — Adam Roberts, Anne (2014)