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But the Swan home still needed some TLC, so Dean balanced his full-time job with refurbishing the house: hammering floorboard nails, patching leaky faucets, and fixing leaky water heaters.—Ani Freedman, Fortune, 29 June 2025 Shampoo is particularly adept at cleaning chrome faucets and other chrome finishings where grease, streaks, and fingerprints are just waiting to be erased.—Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 23 June 2025 The Better Homes & Gardens touchless pull-down kitchen faucet in satin nickel from Walmart features a touchless sensor and a pull-down sprayer for a modern look.—Nora Colomer
May Earn A Commission If You Buy Through Our Referral Links. This Content Was Created By A Team That Works Independently From The Fox Newsroom., FOXNews.com, 7 June 2025 Most plumbers and almost all DIYers pipe hose faucets with a 1/2-inch-diameter supply line.—Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 31 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for faucet
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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