Eventually the relief pipe was carried up twice the height of the cistern and even then the water would squirt out occasionally when the faucets in the kitchen were turned off very suddenly.
Every time the faucets were turned off abruptly the momentum of the water caused the lead pipe to expand, and every now and then the pipe was burst.
Faucets were sputtering, buckets spilling, rivulets flowing underneath the rows of washboards.
All around the women continuously flowed a river from hot-water buckets emptied with a sudden splash, cold-water faucets left dripping, soap suds spattering, and the dripping from rinsed laundry which was hung up.
For in most places in the world as it really is, the water that comes through faucets is simply flowing down from some high reservoir.
When a pipe is being repaired in the basement of a house, you can hear a scraping noise in the faucets upstairs.
About the sides of the gallery are arranged hot and cold water-pipes with faucets and hose connections, the hose being terminated by a spray apparatus similar to the nose of a watering-pot.
The stationary wash-basins should be scrubbed with sapolio and the faucets polished.
The stationary wash-bowl should be scrubbed with sapolio, and the faucets polished, not forgetting the chain.
I quickly raised one side of the hood, leaned across the cold fender, and in a jiffy I had both faucets open.
By raising one side of the engine hood, I could lean across the fender and reach both faucets easily, even in the dark, as I often did.
A slow gust of air hissed out of the faucetswhen Hall turned the taps.
Once, when his grandmother at great difficulty had procured for him a clerkship, he confiscated the nickel-plated faucets out of the wash room, barely escaping prosecution.
I'm going to send Joe out from the store to-day with some washers for the kitchen faucets and some poultry netting for a chicken yard.
Faucets can be kept bright by rubbing with whiting and alcohol, followed by a vigorous polishing with a bit of flannel.
Miller locks shall be used in securing the faucets and openings of the mixing tanks and the de-naturing material tanks.
At night, however, and out of working hours, few faucets are open, less water is drawn off at any one time, and the intricate pipes are constantly full of water under high pressure.
Even with a high pressure, half-inch pipe is unsatisfactory because of the great velocity with which the water comes from the faucets and because the high pressure causes the packing in the faucetsto wear out rapidly.
To these figures must be added the expense of the piping to bring both hot and cold water to the tubs, together with the two faucets and the drainpipe connections necessary.
This is pure white, and when fitted with nickel faucets makes a very attractive fitting.
Similarly, experience with those faucets that open and shut by a single turn of a handle shows that frequent renewals of packing are necessary.
To this must be added the cost of faucets and piping, together with the drain and the trap that belongs with the drain.
Experience with the so-called self-closing faucets or bibbs has not been entirely satisfactory, since, with high pressure, the packing very quickly wears out.
But, on the other hand, there is a great tendency in cold weather to let the water run in a slow stream from faucets in order to prevent freezing.
Such a stream would require a reservoir somewhere in order to supply the faucets at the proper rate, and for a single family a small cistern or even a barrel sunk in the ground would be sufficient for this purpose.
The faucets may be nickeled or left plain brass, and the advantage of the added expense of nickel is in the appearance alone.
If the faucets themselves are nickel, then the piping also should be nickel; that is, brass nickel-plated.
At many faucetsin a city water system such an air cushion is employed.
When many faucets are opened the water lowers; when most faucets are closed the water rises, giving a simple automatic control of the surplus water and a supply of water for a short time during a shut-down of the pumps.
Many who have lived in cities where water is pumped into houses under pressure know that the water pressure is changed when several faucetsare opened at the same time.
You thought if the faucets were larger it would save fish-hooks and worms.
Why don't you have largerfaucets and catch the fish?
As I remember it, the faucets were too small to get the fish through, and I was pondering why you didn't have them larger.
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The woodwork was wiped off with a cloth kept for that purpose, and then they turned to the polishing of the faucets and pipes.
In fact, Carlie had been so busy that his forgetting to turn off the faucets in the bathroom is not at all surprising.
And Carlie realized that he had forgotten to turn off the faucets in the bathroom.
I ran behind the bar, smashed the mirror and all the bottles under it; picked up the cash register, threw it down; then broke the faucetsof the refrigerator, opened the door and cut the rubber tubes that conducted the beer.
The sunlight twinkled here and there on a polished surface, and flung a trembling bright reflection on the ceiling from the brass faucets of the sink.
Julia went down one flight of stairs to the nearest bathroom, in search of hot water, but both faucets ran cold, and she went upstairs again.
This does away with both faucets and conductors, and the idea is worthy the attention of all factorymen.
Nothing smaller than inch-and-a-half or two-inch faucetsshould be put in.
Yet, some factories still continue receiving milk through conductors, where, of course, faucetsare necessary.
The outlet to this should be a few inches higher than the faucets in the penstocks for supplying the vats with water.
The faucets in the penstocks should be all of the same hight--if any difference is made, the one farthest from the head might be a quarter or half an inch the lowest.
Be sure the faucets used for the garden hose are disconnected and drained.
The best water system, however, cannot cope with faucets thoughtlessly left running.
Turn on all thefaucets in the house and so flush the tank thoroughly.
Then open several other faucets connected with the same water-pipe.
If we could make the water adjust its own pressure and keep the pressure always the same, then the water would always flow at the same rate through a faucet, no matter how many other faucets were opened.
The basin bore the image of the high priest Eli; those of his sons Hophni and Phinehas were on the twofaucets protruding from the basin, and those of Nadab and Abihu on the tubes connection the faucets with the basin.
Then the faucets were shining silver dragons, spouting out streams of water from their mouths to drown four little mermaids, who were not real mermaids, but children whom a wicked witch had changed to such and thrown into a pool.
Never before had they seen water spurt from shining faucets into big white basins with chained-up holes at the bottom.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "faucets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
