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Example sentences for "faucet"

Lexicographically close words:
fatuously; fatus; fatuus; faubourgs; fauces; faucets; faucht; faucibus; faucon; faudra
  1. The whey may be removed either by means of a faucet or gate in the vat or by a siphon (Fig.

  2. Before the last of the whey has been removed, the curd should be pushed back from the faucet into the upper two-thirds of the vat and spread in an even layer.

  3. And if he has sense enough to turn off the faucet and mop up the floor they will parole him, but should he let the faucet run, they know that he is crazy.

  4. When they want to test some patient to see whether he has recovered his reason, they have a room with a faucet in it, and a cement floor, and they give the patient a mop and tell him to mop up the floor.

  5. A cock or faucet having a bent down nozzle.

  6. A faucet is introduced into John's aorta, and his blood drawn off into a bucket for the chemist to analyze and purify of tobacco.

  7. If the disease is in the limb, we enclose it within this; the rubber excludes the air, and to this faucet we affix the pump, and remove the air from the limb.

  8. A little faucet in a water pipe or pump, to let air out, or at the end of a steam cylinder, to drain it.

  9. A pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask; also, the plug of a faucet or cock.

  10. Holding her bit of a handkerchief under the faucet long enough to get it dripping wet, she scrubbed herself with the ice-water, until her cheeks shone like rosy winter apples.

  11. Mrs. Estel smiled as she glanced at Sally, to whom the faucet of the water-cooler seemed a never-failing source of amusement.

  12. A very little stream of water from a faucet will cool the baby's milk and keep it from souring.

  13. Shut off the water from the pipe to the faucet before beginning to repair a leaking faucet.

  14. The pipe ends at the outside of the ice box with a faucet to let out the water.

  15. Replace with a new ring, and put the faucet together again.

  16. A booster is a device which keeps the water hot up to the faucet (Fig.

  17. Under enough pressure, the water from a faucet will give power enough to a small-sized water motor to run a washing machine, sewing machine or small feed grinders.

  18. The leather, or rubber, washer in a faucet must be renewed when it leaks.

  19. Follow the directions for repacking of faucet (Fig.

  20. I'll turn on a little hot water and it will soon melt and run off," and he turned on the faucet as he spoke.

  21. There were also several paper drinking cups, to indicate that the cadets might drink all the water they cared to draw from the faucet in the bathroom.

  22. In the forecastle he found that the water supply was furnished by a small faucet on the after bulkhead.

  23. Close by, was the faucet in the main pipe fed by the force pump.

  24. She turned a faucet that supplied a basin in the countingroom, held her handkerchief to it, and saturated it with water.

  25. She was interested, and he showed her what the guilty faucet of her tap held in concealment.

  26. How delicious it was to see and hear and feel the clear, hot water as it rushed from the silver faucet into the white porcelain bowl!

  27. Henrietta sent me for a fresh pail of water, which I got from the faucet in the toilet-room; and as I filled my bucket I made a mental inventory of my fellow-toilers' wardrobes.

  28. In this tube the coals were placed, and when the water in the urn was hot, it could be drawn off by means of a faucet at the side.

  29. In the narrow space between i and c a cistern was built, from which water could be drawn by means of a faucet in front.

  30. Back of the faucet is a small vertical vent tube.

  31. Turn that faucet when you let the water on," and he went along and pointed to one in a pipe by the wall, "and that pump is there in case of accident.

  32. This faucet is to let the water off if you get the boiler too full.

  33. She had told her lessee about her laundress and her cleaning woman and how to handle the balky faucet that controlled the shower.

  34. Never expected, I bet, to see a twelve-story hotel with separate ice-water faucet in every bathroom and a bath to every room.

  35. Picking up a tin cup, he held it under the faucet in the side of the keg.

  36. He came aft and Craig held the tin cup under the faucet in the keg.

  37. The faucet was turned on in India; and the Roman garden went waterless, and wilted.

  38. The West-Asian faucet was due to be turned on in the two-twenties; now watch the spray from the sprinklers in the Chinese and Roman gardens.

  39. I look eastward, to the next garden below on the slope; and see my neighbors busy there: their faucet has been turned on, and is flowing royally; and I know where the water is going.

  40. That piece is hollowed out, partially to admit the key C, opposite to which is the faucet and spigot c', for emptying the tub.

  41. There is, as usual, a spigot and faucet at the side, for drawing off the liquid paste.

  42. A syphon well managed serves better than a faucet to draw off wine clear from the sediment.

  43. Fasten the tapwaist inside the mash-tub to the inner end of the faucet and spigot, taking care to place the mash-tub in an elevated position, resting upon two benches or stools.

  44. A nice little refinement here is the installation of a third faucet at either kitchen or pantry sink, piped direct to the pump.

  45. We also have a box of assorted faucet washers.

  46. Then with garden hose attached to the faucet at the base of the tank, drain out all the water that will come.

  47. Be sure the faucet of the stopped pipe is open.

  48. For a thorough job unscrew this faucet and the piece of pipe connecting it to the tank.

  49. After that he didn't have to pump water, he only had to open the faucet and let it flow.

  50. And most cars had another faucet on one side of the motor.

  51. So, all cars had a handy little faucet under the radiator.

  52. When the wind blew and the mill was pumping water, we could open a faucet at the top of the well and get a drink of fresh cold water.

  53. Most of the water ran out before he could get it plugged up and put a faucet in the bottom of it.

  54. Pour in the right amount of hot water from faucet (according to instructions with machine) and allow the machine to run about 10 minutes.

  55. The most economical way to handle the circulating tank heater, when water is needed for a bath, is as follows: Light heater and turn on faucet so that the water will flow into the tub as quickly as it is heated in the tank.

  56. The automatic water heaters are made to heat water instantly and automatically upon opening any hot water faucet in the system.

  57. To Polish Faucets--Nothing is better for scouring a faucet than the half of a lemon after the juice has been squeezed out.

  58. Don't you think we should have a faucet on this gooseneck?

  59. Come spring, we may tie a faucet onto it.

  60. He rubbed away briskly at the single faucet which protruded above the counter, lathering it briskly with a metal polish that smelt to Heaven.

  61. If I ever get out of this fix, I'll blow the whole shooting match," he promised himself, holding the glass beneath the faucet and fiddling nervously with the valves.

  62. All I know is you turn on the faucet and there's water.

  63. What's the other source, besides the faucet in your bathroom?


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