running water

noun

: water distributed through pipes and fixtures
a cabin with hot and cold running water

Examples of running water in a Sentence

a cabin with hot and cold running water
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The sounds of running water, hard objects (like buttons on a pair of jeans) tumbling around, and the machine's signals can be grating for those trying to sleep. Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 June 2025 Opus sits at 11,600 feet, on an old mining claim, and has creature comforts a miner could only have dreamed of: running water and electricity, of course, as well as meals like mushroom-barley soup with olive-oil croutons or coconut chicken curry, plus beer, wine, and cocktails. Elizabeth Cantrell, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2025 Success came to the enterprise, enabling funds to be provided for the installation in 1960 of running water in each house, modern sanitation and the prospect that at last the island could become self-supporting. The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 23 May 2025 However, the hurricane left the hotel without power or running water. Olivia Lee, Charlotte Observer, 8 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for running water

Word History

First Known Use

1856, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of running water was in 1856

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“Running water.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/running%20water. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

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