Sentence examples for plumbing it from inspiring English sources

In "Armadillo," which will be broadcast on A&E tomorrow night, William Boyd, screenwriter and author, has turned the caricature on its head, taking a dull profession and plumbing it for practical consequences and metaphoric possibilities.

Once Reuters is part of the plumbing, it can add software to manage risk internally and help its clients comply with regulators for a fee.

But I didn't stay there, because of a problem with the plumbing: it wasn't connected.

The NFL views their network infrastructure as a business asset; it's not just plumbing, it can't be.

Stephen's sister Mary remembers her little brother not just wiring her dolls' house, but plumbing it, too.

Brodsky rented a little cottage in the village and, while it didn't have central heating or plumbing, it was, as one visitor marvelled, his very own.

To make it art we detach it from the plumbing, tip it on its end and set it on a plinth.

He had floored and plumbed it, wired and walled the empty space and now it was a home for someone, one day, maybe.

But "depression" is not a single entity, and studies that set out to plumb it are confounded by the many disorders hidden under that blanket label.

Schenck (pronounced "Skenk") left the house to his eldest son, who left it to his eldest son, who left it to his children, who sold it to others, who expanded it, remodelled it, heated it, plumbed it, neglected it, and so forth.

Brovia's mellow '96 Valmaggione ($19), a Nebbiolo d'Alba, seemed, well, so very Italian -- the way a Gauloise cigarette's aroma can be only French -- that it takes an Italian sensibility to plumb it.