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Spray it on your faucets and shower heads once a week.—Cody Godwin, USA Today, 18 May 2025 There’s a faucet on the eastern end of the campground where water from the creek is piped, but upon my arrival, the trough where the water came out was covered in thick green algae.—Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2025 Removing Hard-Water Stains Ketchup can dissolve the minerals that cause hard-water stains on your faucets and fixtures.—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 21 Apr. 2025 Some were given no toilet and no functioning faucet, or were expected to sleep on mats on concrete floors, in rooms where the lights never turned off.—Sarah Stillman, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for faucet
Word History
Etymology
Middle English, bung, faucet, from Middle French fausset bung, perhaps from fausser to damage, from Late Latin falsare to falsify, from Latin falsus false
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