How to Use plumbing in a Sentence

plumbing

noun

• The house has old plumbing.
• The building is in need of new plumbing and electric wiring.
  — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2022
• If the tree's plumbing is all clogged up, the water can't go anywhere.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 2 Dec. 2022
• The building needed new HVAC, new plumbing and new wiring.
  — Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 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
• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• To use an example scenario: Joe, the plumber, decides to quit his job and start his own plumbing business.
  — Brian Will, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
• Modern plumbing joined to good civic engineering still ranks right at the top.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 2 Feb. 2024
• The brass plumbing from Graff and cloud wallpaper is like the jewelry layered on top.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 31 July 2024
• There were chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, cows, and horses, but no indoor plumbing.
  — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 8 July 2022
• The plumbing issues must have gotten repaired enough for Grio to pass a same-day re-inspection.
  — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2024
• Not usually a problem, if the parties are eager and the plumbing is intact.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2023
• Faye ended up in a tight spot after crawling into the wall through a plumbing access door.
  — Raven Brunner, Peoplemag, 15 May 2024
• Expect some plumbing duties, too, as well as installing signs throughout the park.
  — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 21 Feb. 2023
• These units require some plumbing and are usually made of tile, so this raises costs.
  — Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Dec. 2022
• If the power outage or plumbing issues were found to be the result of negligence or lack of regular maintenance (highly likely in this scenario!), an insurance company might deny the claim.
  — Chris Rhodes, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024