Recent Examples on the WebCuddles liked to drink from a dripping faucet while Bella preferred to sip from a tall Stanley cup.—Courtenay Rudzinski, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 June 2024 Yelp trend expert Tara Lewis suggests starting with small, simple changes with the help of a handyman to revitalize your bathroom, like installing a new shower head, modern fixtures, or faucets.—Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 May 2024 Its premise, still novel in 1975, was that domestic skills are not tied to gender, and that women can learn to fix a dripping faucet just as easily as men and children can learn to shop for groceries and wash their own clothes.—Penelope Green, New York Times, 22 May 2024 The elevator breakdown came as jurors were shuttled between floors to an assembly room because carpeting in their usual assembly room just outside the courtroom was found to be soaked Monday after somebody left sink faucets on over the weekend.—Larry Neumeister, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for faucet
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Word History
Etymology
Middle English, bung, faucet, from Middle French fausset bung, perhaps from fausser to damage, from Late Latin falsare to falsify, from Latin falsus false
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