How to Use indoor plumbing in a Sentence

indoor plumbing

noun

• Now would be the time to make sure your indoor plumbing is ready for the cold weather.
  — Leo Bertucci, The Courier-Journal, 13 Jan. 2024
• New appliances, indoor plumbing, a 50-foot spruce, and a reindeer corral put it over the top.
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Dec. 2023
• Lee grew up in the '60s and '70s on the reservation during a time when his family had no indoor plumbing, and water was hauled in.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 18 Jan. 2024
• Now a new house is arriving on a barge, and soon Mama Sue will have indoor plumbing and running water for the first time.
  — Kyle Hopkins, ProPublica, 11 Nov. 2023
• There was no electricity in Taos or indoor plumbing, the roads were mud and only one telephone in town was wired to the outside world.
  — Kealey Boyd, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2023
• Morning News archives show many homes in Joppa did not have indoor plumbing until the 1980s.
  — Sonia Rao, Dallas News, 17 June 2023
• Ruth Jean’s younger years were lived in a drafty, leaky shack with no electricity, running water or indoor plumbing, and no heat aside from a wood stove in the winter.
  — Joyce Sáenz Harris, Dallas News, 24 Aug. 2023
• The house, which had no indoor plumbing, remained occupied until the late 1970s, when the Millards’ great-grandmother died.
  — Lateshia Beachum, Washington Post, 14 June 2023
• Think of the advent of indoor plumbing or the installation of natural gas lines or building roads and highways.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 15 Aug. 2023
• The tiny homes that make up two-thirds of the dwellings go for slightly lower, but have no indoor plumbing; their residents use communal bathhouses and kitchens.
  — Lucy Tompkins Eli Durst, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2024
• There are five bedrooms to accommodate up to 10 guests at a time, as well as a living room with a fireplace, a full kitchen, and, perhaps most importantly, indoor plumbing.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 20 Oct. 2023
• Barely a five-minute drive from Jwaneng Mine sits a community of boxy yellow and green homes that have no electricity or indoor plumbing.
  — John Eligon Joao Silva, New York Times, 29 June 2023
• That allows most – but not all – Americans to have indoor plumbing and reasonably safe drinking water.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 20 Feb. 2024
• What the Rohs find on their travels — elevators, indoor plumbing, flat-screen TVs and Americans who are friendly rather than murderous — astounds them.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
• In the 1800s, the ancient Roman conception was later adopted by the U.S., which would also install lead pipes nationwide to provide indoor plumbing to citizens.
  — Jade Lawson, ABC News, 19 Apr. 2023
• Lawyers representing Pye also wrote in court filings that their client was raised in extreme poverty in a home without indoor plumbing or access to sufficient food, shoes or clothing.
  — CBS News, 20 Mar. 2024
• Before fancy washing machines or even indoor plumbing was invented, staff would have to fetch pales of water and hand wash everything before drying and ironing it all.
  — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 5 Jan. 2023
• Our story was like many on the reservation: no running water, indoor plumbing or electricity.
  — George R. Joe, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2023
• In the beginning, there was no electricity, running water, or indoor plumbing.
  — Patricia English Garner, Southern Living, 12 Oct. 2023
• As indoor plumbing’s prevalence grew, in part thanks to housing codes and mass manufacturing, public bathing receded.
  — Lia Picard, New York Times, 9 June 2023
• Winter on the New England coast is dark, windy and unforgiving even today, with the benefit of modern clothing, home heating systems, electricity and indoor plumbing.
  — Kerry J. Byrne Fox News, Fox News, 18 Nov. 2022
• Yes, Mason had air conditioning and indoor plumbing — plus a color TV, refrigerator, exercise machine and a phone line to the Brewers office.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 12 June 2023
• Original shotgun homes were also built before indoor plumbing.
  — Alyssa Longobucco, House Beautiful, 22 Feb. 2023
• Clean running water had the secondary benefit of enabling more manufacturing, especially in the textile sector, and indoor plumbing freed women from the drudgery of carrying fresh water into their homes and dirty water out of them.
  — Thomas J. Bollyky, Foreign Affairs, 26 Sep. 2018
• Their compound lacked indoor plumbing, which meant that Davidians urinated and defecated in outhouses and plastic buckets.
  — Paul Renfro, The New Republic, 31 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024