Sentence examples for the faucet running from inspiring English sources

Who left the faucet running?

And allowing our financiers to run unchecked is about as conservative as leaving the faucet running.

If Eggers leaves the faucet running, Sadie makes sounds like a waterfall until he turns it off.

I gave her a thumbs-up if she made a sale at work and I comforted her when she collapsed in the bathroom with the faucet running so that no one would hear her crying.

All he heard from the girl's house was drawers and cabinets opening and shutting, the faucet running, and then her radio dial crackling up and down, landing finally on bright, snappy pop songs.

Wholesalers keep them in barges, retailers rush them from barge to buyer as fast as possible, and housewives keep them in bathtubs with the faucet running until the very moment of the feast.

Even in my condo building, I need to let the faucet run a while to flush the stagnant, off-tasting water from the pipes before filling my glass.

By Thom Jones The New Yorker, June 21 , 1993P. 83 There is a cold snap and Richard leaves all of the faucets running in his house, because most of the houses on the West Coast aren't made for that.

The New Yorker, June 21 , 1993P. 83 There is a cold snap and Richard leaves all of the faucets running in his house, because most of the houses on the West Coast aren't made for that.

Still, the feeling of frustration when the faucets run dry is widespread, as was captured by a prominent poet, Tatyana Shcherbina: They've turned off all the hot water, my liquid of love, my stream of words.

Kids will brush their teeth for a few minutes and just leave that faucet running like it's no big deal to flush down gallons of clean water.