How to Use plumbing in a Sentence

plumbing

noun

• The house has old plumbing.
• The building is in need of new plumbing and electric wiring.
  — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2022
• The beauty of these products is that no plumbing needs to be done.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 16 May 2022
• If the tree's plumbing is all clogged up, the water can't go anywhere.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 2 Dec. 2022
• The plumbing broke, spraying raw sewage puddles on the floor.
  — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2025
• Ben swings by to help with the plumbing — and sees an eyeball floating in the toilet.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 15 June 2022
• In the months that followed, plumbing leaked and flooded.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 July 2021
• The quote only covered the plumbing drain pipes and water lines that would be under the slab of the house.
  — Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 29 Mar. 2025
• Along with new exam rooms, the centers will need supplies and plumbing to equip the rooms.
  — Nada Hassanein, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2021
• In plumbing lingo, these ridges are called splines or points.
  — Washington Post, 12 July 2021
• The building needed new HVAC, new plumbing and new wiring.
  — Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2022
• The true stars of the past season could be the people responsible for the plumbing.
  — Charles Passy, WSJ, 10 June 2022
• Back then, the house had no furnace, no water heater and no plumbing under the kitchen sink.
  — NBC News, 10 Nov. 2021
• Ian spent most of his first five years in a house without plumbing that was heated with wood.
  — C.j. Chivers, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2023
• The plumbing is going to get adjusted and that is going to be spicy.
  — Clem Chambers, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• Every room leads into the other; the plumbing works; there’s a first floor and a second floor.
  — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
• What’s the plumbing structure of Enceladus’s plumes, and how are they sustained?
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 28 July 2022
• There's the young girl in Kosovo who gave her a tour of her home, with no running water or plumbing.
  — Liz McNeil, Peoplemag, 9 Dec. 2022
• It’s from the plumbing to the electricity to the construction.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 2 Sep. 2022
• The second thing to note is that these OCIs are building plumbing between clouds.
  — Matt Kimball, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
• The heat and air conditioner didn't work, and there were plumbing problems in the bathroom.
  — CBS News, 30 May 2023
• And fixing the plumbing would require ripping up the floor in Green’s apartment.
  — Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Apr. 2022
• The utility said the parking lot is the best spot for new plumbing due to the density of businesses in the area.
  — Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Dec. 2021
• A lot of the heavy lifting has been done — the frame’s been built and there’s power and plumbing in place — but there are no doors, floors, or furniture.
  — James Vincent, The Verge, 8 Mar. 2023
• Tatum was raised in a modest home near Rockville Road with no indoor plumbing and an outhouse.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Mar. 2022
• And while all the plumbing on the property is new, McKinley couldn't resist adding a vintage touch to the bathroom.
  — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 June 2022
• More costly things like major plumbing and roofing now need to be done.
  — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 6 July 2024
• The plumbing and electricity were positively state-of-the-art – for the 1920s.
  — Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• Locker rooms were crumbling, there was no heat or hot water, or water at all with plumbing turned off when the temperature got too low due to old pipes.
  — Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 3 Apr. 2025
• The Thai restaurant was closed by Sacramento County health inspectors for a plumbing issue.
  — Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 11 Apr. 2025