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How to use faucet in a sentence

21 example sentences · noun

Faucet means an exposed plumbing fitting; a tap or spigot; a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir. Example: “The rain ceased as if a faucet had been turned off.”

Examples of faucet by meaning

nounAn exposed plumbing fitting; a tap or spigot; a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir.

  • The rain ceased as if a faucet had been turned off.
  • Wallace beats his palm against the reluctant handle of the faucet until it gives way, and the water comes out too hard, too fast.2020, Brandon Taylor, Real Life, Daunt Books Originals, page 80

More sentences with faucet

  • In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment.From the entry in
  • The constant run of water from the faucet annoys me.From the entry run
  • The faucet has been leaking since last month.From the entry leak
  • The antiscald faucet was linked to a thermostat.From the entry antiscald
  • Switches and transistors control the flow of electricity like valves and faucets control water.2017 October, “Snap Circuits Light”, in Snap Circuits, Elenco, pages 9, 59. From the entry transistor
  • Premount the faucet on new sink installations.2015, The Family Handyman Ultimate 1 Day Projects, page 36. From the entry premount
  • If you're installing a new sink along with your faucet, mount the faucet to the sink before you install the sink.2015, The Family Handyman Ultimate 1 Day Projects, page 36. From the entry premount
  • I was seeping like a loose faucet.2007, Rechella, Players Got Played, Kensington Books, page 112. From the entry gushy
  • Vot I don't understand is vy so many faucet?1962, Ann Pugh, Heidi, page 51. From the entry voops
  • Joe Staudinger plumbered so well that on Saturday night boiling water came from both hot and cold faucets.1939 November 28, “Nordenotes”, in Sierra Club Yodeler, volume 1, number 19, San Francisco, Calif.: San Francisco Bay Chapter, Sierra…. From the entry plumber
  • A faucet turned up will make a satisfactory fountain.1939, Ella Gardner, Short-Time Camps: A Manual for 4-H Leaders, United States Department of Agriculture, page 11. From the entry bubbler
  • This decades-old company carefully crafts authentic reproductions of Victorian-era bathware, including a huge range of cast-iron tubs and faucets, hand showers, and tubfills.2016, Domino: Your Guide to a Stylish Home: Discovering Your Personal Style and Creatiang a Space You Love, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page…. From the entry bathware
  • You may remember the days when a case of the thirsties sent you to the water faucet for a glass of water.2012, Sharon Palmer, The Plant-Powered Diet. From the entry thirsties
  • Automatically, he scanned the premises for catly mischief, just as Nick Bamba scanned a vacated guest room for missing lightbulbs and dripping hot water faucets.2003, Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Went Up the Creek. From the entry catly
  • With a monkey wrench on the hexagonal part of the stuffing box unscrew the stuffing box from the body of the faucet.1948, George M. Warren, Simple Plumbing Repairs in the Home: Farmers' Bulletin, number 1460, page 2. From the entry monkey wrench
  • In the corner by the door is a faucet with a basin beneath it, and beyond this what Chic Sale would call a "family one-holer".1941, P. G. Wodehouse, second Berlin broadcast. From the entry one-holer
  • And when you are through dancing you can go out to the faucet and get yourself a drink—provided the water hasn't been turned off.1922, Robert Benchley, Love Conquers All. From the entry who cares
  • The bathroom has a small tub and no shower, just a smooth hose attached to the faucet and hanging limply downward, a neck bent in defeat.2018 April 10, Christina Lauren, Love and Other Words, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN. From the entry shath
  • Our little leaky faucet had to wear a drool bib at all times, and went through them at the rate of one per hour, even more when he was teething.2012, Angela Wynne, The Baby Cheapskate Guide to Bargains, page 206. From the entry drooler

Meaning of faucet

  1. noun An exposed plumbing fitting; a tap or spigot; a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir.
  2. noun One or several systems that inject currency into the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.
  3. noun A tapered tube, designed to be forced into a matching hole in a barrel, with the outer end holding a plug cock for decanting liquid from the barrel.

Full definition of faucet

Questions about faucet in a sentence

How do you use faucet in a sentence?
Faucet is used as a noun. For example: “The rain ceased as if a faucet had been turned off.”
What is a short sentence with faucet?
“I was seeping like a loose faucet.”
What does faucet mean?
Faucet means an exposed plumbing fitting; a tap or spigot; a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: faucet (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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