How to Use plumbing in a Sentence

plumbing

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  • The house has old plumbing.
  • The building is in need of new plumbing and electric wiring.
    — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2022
  • The beauty of these products is that no plumbing needs to be done.
    — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 16 May 2022
  • If the tree's plumbing is all clogged up, the water can't go anywhere.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Ben swings by to help with the plumbing — and sees an eyeball floating in the toilet.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 15 June 2022
  • The building needed new HVAC, new plumbing and new wiring.
    — Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The true stars of the past season could be the people responsible for the plumbing.
    — Charles Passy, WSJ, 10 June 2022
  • Ian spent most of his first five years in a house without plumbing that was heated with wood.
    — C.j. Chivers, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The plumbing is going to get adjusted and that is going to be spicy.
    — Clem Chambers, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Every room leads into the other; the plumbing works; there’s a first floor and a second floor.
    — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
  • What’s the plumbing structure of Enceladus’s plumes, and how are they sustained?
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 28 July 2022
  • There's the young girl in Kosovo who gave her a tour of her home, with no running water or plumbing.
    — Liz McNeil, Peoplemag, 9 Dec. 2022
  • It’s from the plumbing to the electricity to the construction.
    — Paul Gattis | [email protected], al, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The second thing to note is that these OCIs are building plumbing between clouds.
    — Matt Kimball, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
  • The heat and air conditioner didn't work, and there were plumbing problems in the bathroom.
    — CBS News, 30 May 2023
  • And fixing the plumbing would require ripping up the floor in Green’s apartment.
    — Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Apr. 2022
  • A lot of the heavy lifting has been done — the frame’s been built and there’s power and plumbing in place — but there are no doors, floors, or furniture.
    — James Vincent, The Verge, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Tatum was raised in a modest home near Rockville Road with no indoor plumbing and an outhouse.
    — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Mar. 2022
  • And while all the plumbing on the property is new, McKinley couldn't resist adding a vintage touch to the bathroom.
    — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 June 2022
  • More costly things like major plumbing and roofing now need to be done.
    — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 6 July 2024
  • The plumbing and electricity were positively state-of-the-art – for the 1920s.
    — Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The mansion house was electrified and the plumbing brought inside.
    — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 23 Apr. 2022
  • In 2000, Prasad made the decision to leave his plumbing and construction business and start a farm.
    — Erica Zora Wrightson, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Low-roofed, a maze of plumbing, with cladding hanging from the sloped ceiling like stalactites.
    — Geoffrey Bunting, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2024
  • Lightning can travel through plumbing and can increase the risk of being struck.
    — Jalen Williams, Detroit Free Press, 25 June 2024
  • Wheeler said the electricity is turned off, but the plumbing still works.
    — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2024
  • The property is architecturally brilliant, one of the first with plumbing in the area and a huge bathroom for the time.
    — Camille Okhio, ELLE Decor, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The house had no wiring or plumbing and was leaning forward because the summer beam had been removed.
    — Regina Cole, Forbes, 3 May 2022
  • Joshua Correa learned the ins and outs of home building as a teenager helping out with his dad’s plumbing business.
    — Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2022
  • The river's plumbing system was designed and built around a runoff cycle documented by many years of snow and runoff.
    — Shaun McKinnon, The Arizona Republic, 10 Dec. 2024

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