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How to use sprinkler in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun, verb

Sprinkler means anything that sprinkles. Example: “A dry sprinkler may be used where there is a risk of water freezing solid within the pipes.”

More sentences with sprinkler

  • A dry sprinkler may be used where there is a risk of water freezing solid within the pipes.From the entry dry sprinkler
  • A second system of conventional dry sprinkler heads is interspersed with the drencher heads.2008, John Ridley, John Channing, Safety at Work, page 675. From the entry drencher
  • Just so, light beaded on tin lanterns, drops fanfared from sprinklers, minnows fluted in pools.2000, Veronica Patterson, Swan, what Shores?, →ISBN, page 11. From the entry fanfare
  • She dragged him along the wide bitumen path and past the slow chig-chig-chig of a lawn sprinkler.1994, Glyn Parry, Monster Man, New York, N.Y.: Fawcett Juniper, →ISBN, page 133. From the entry chig
  • The drencher supply should also be separate from the sprinkler supply.1950, Great Britain. Ministry of Public Building and Works, Post-war Building Studies (issues 28-31, page 14). From the entry drencher
  • "It was in a little sprinkler bottle, an' I gormed it onto my vittles good an' thick.1909, Augusta Kortrecht, “The Widow Mary”, in Good Housekeeping, volume 48, page 182. From the entry gorm
  • But some neighbors still let their sprinklers spray, and Mr.2021 July 20, Jack Healy, Sophie Kasakove, “A Drought So Dire That a Utah Town Pulled the Plug on Growth”, in The New York Times, →ISSN…. From the entry dry up and blow away
  • We can make artificial rainbows with a gardenhose and a sprinkler head adjusted for a very fine spray.1962, Hans Hermann Neuberger, George W. Nicholas, Manual of lecture demonstrations, laboratory experiments, and observational equipment…. From the entry gardenhose
  • Look out for the street sprinkler.1900 July 18, The Palenville Zephyr: Devoted to the Interests of Palenville and Vicinity, volume III, number 3, Palenville, N.Y., column 1. From the entry commissioneress
  • It is the Kardashianization of America, as California runs out of water, the Kardashians can not be shamed into turning off their sprinklers on their palatial green landscapes.2015 June 2, cicero venatio, “America today: "Call me Caitlyn."”, in alt.politics.elections (Usenet). From the entry Kardashianization

Meaning of sprinkler

  1. noun Anything that sprinkles.
  2. noun An irrigation device that sprays water into the air whilst moving back and forth.
  3. noun A heat-activated device that sprays water in the event of a fire, usually mounted on a ceiling.

Full definition of sprinkler

Questions about sprinkler in a sentence

How do you use sprinkler in a sentence?
Sprinkler is used as a noun and verb. For example: “A dry sprinkler may be used where there is a risk of water freezing solid within the pipes.”
What is a short sentence with sprinkler?
“Look out for the street sprinkler.”
What does sprinkler mean?
Sprinkler means anything that sprinkles.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sprinkler (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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