How to Use spigot in a Sentence

spigot

noun

• Hook the hose up to the spigot behind the house.
• The spigots close off at 4 p.m., when the 21+ event opens to all ages.
  — Benjy Egel, sacbee, 22 Jan. 2018
• The spigot is short, which may be hard for some to turn.
  — Better Homes & Gardens, 8 June 2022
• The man’s feet were splayed against the pink tile on either side of the spigot.
  — Jamie Quatro, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• In the evenings, as people turn in for the night, managers turn down the spigot.
  — Zak Podmore, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 May 2022
• Now the Fed is ready to turn the spigot in the other direction.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2022
• This is a standard hose spigot with a long pipe on the back end that extends through the side of the house.
  — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 5 Nov. 2019
• That payment appears to have marked the opening of the spigot on years of loans.
  — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2024
• By 1930, Congress was ready to wrest control of the spigot.
  — Tristan Baurick, nola.com, 15 June 2019
• April and May didn’t bring a lot of rain and then the spigot turned on and seemingly hasn’t turned off since.
  — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2023
• Progressive groups and unions kept the spigots on for Northam.
  — Fenit Nirappil, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2017
• There’s not a spigot to turn on that’s going to come pouring out oil.
  — David Blackmon, Forbes, 12 June 2022
• When the money spigot stays on, everybody stays paid, the rank and file stays in line.
  — Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2023
• Others kept small crops alive with buckets of water hauled down from a spigot at the top of the hill.
  — Joe Mozingo, latimes.com, 4 June 2018
• Bats had been roosting in the trees where locals set up spigots to collect the tasty sap.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 29 Jan. 2020
• Both have since struck deals with militants that turned on the spigots again.
  — Sarah McFarlane, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2017
• The Fed, of course, turned on the money spigot in March 2020, and greenbacks rained down on us for nearly two years.
  — Brett Owens, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2022
• Wrap the spigot threads with Teflon tape, then screw the spigot into the union fitting on the outside of the barrel.
  — Viveka Neveln, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 May 2024
• In June, the same group opened up the spigot again, adding production to keep prices from getting too high.
  — Anatoly Kurmanaev, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2018
• Once a month works, as does a weekly misting or a splash under the spigot.
  — Jennifer Dixon, Detroit Free Press, 1 Sep. 2023
• That should start closing the spigot on Iran’s revenue sources.
  — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 16 May 2018
• The cutoff marks the end of a colossal spigot of stimulus funds.
  — The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 6 Sep. 2021
• Turn off the spigot, then connect the other end of the hose to the water intake on the pressure washer.
  — Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 July 2023
• As the spigot of VC money dries up, a Darwinian culling of the herd may occur.
  — Paddy Padmanabhan, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022
• If Russia turns off the spigot to Europe, that’s going to hurt.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 28 Jan. 2022
• The output spigot is located near the bottom of the barrel but not all the way at the bottom.
  — Andrea Wurzburger, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Sep. 2023
• Why, then, does the spigot of criticism from some of his peers remain so wide open?
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Feb. 2022
• Use a drill bit that's a little smaller than or the same size as the spigot or union fitting (matched to the size of your spigot).
  — Viveka Neveln, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 May 2024
• In cities, water is typically pumped up to rooftop tanks, which feed the flow down to spigots via gravity.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 9 Aug. 2024
• Travelers should also report any drips, leaks, or other water loss and remove outside hoses from spigots when not in use.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 16 July 2024

Last Updated: 15 Oct 2024