How to Use water meter in a Sentence

water meter

noun

• Keep cold air out of your water meter.
  — Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 23 Jan. 2026
• Make sure the water meter box doesn’t freeze by keeping the lid on.
  — Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Jan. 2025
• Scrape the pipe coming into your water meter from the floor or a wall.
  — Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 14 Nov. 2019
• Make sure the lid on your water meter pit is tightly secured.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Feb. 2024
• Make sure the lid on your water meter pit is secured tightly.
  — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Nov. 2024
• Smart water meters track each time a resident turns on their tap.
  — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2024
• Check to make sure that all the valves closest to the water meter are fully opened.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2023
• In April of last year, the city installed brand new water meters.
  — Veronica Ortega, CBS News, 14 Jan. 2026
• The man hit the pug with an 18-inch pry bar used to lift covers on water meters.
  — Howard Cohen, miamiherald, 22 Feb. 2018
• The shut-off is often near the water meter or where the main water line enters the home.
  — Washington Post, 23 July 2019
• There are plans to roll out the water meter across South Africa and Africa.
  — Emma Reynolds, CNN, 23 Sep. 2019
• The town also needed to install new water meters in every home.
  — Michael Waters, The New Yorker, 4 Jan. 2024
• If your water meter is in the basement, ensure the area is heated and check for broken windows.
  — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Nov. 2024
• There were also expletives spray painted on the road, a water meter and a campaign flag.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 19 Aug. 2020
• Residents can also turn off their home's water at the water meter to help prevent frozen and burst pipes.
  — Abigail Rosenthal, Chron, 16 Feb. 2021
• For many properties, it’s located near the street a few feet downstream of your water meter.
  — Taylor Walcik, Dallas News, 12 June 2022
• The water meter replacement program begins this month and will take three years to complete.
  — Linda Greenstein, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• While most people have a water meter on the side of their homes, usage isn’t measured for secondary-water users.
  — NBC News, 3 Feb. 2022
• Weekly watering schedules might need to be updated as well, so keep a water meter on hand to keep plants perky.
  — Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 10 July 2024
• The city manages water meter reading and billing for the county under a long-standing agreement.
  — Talia Richman, baltimoresun.com, 7 Oct. 2020
• Last April, a local utility ran a pilot for one such water meter in Turin.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Dec. 2017
• For over a year, Baltimore’s water meter readers would get a list of jobs at the beginning of their shifts.
  — Ian Duncan, baltimoresun.com, 14 June 2018
• Social Circle went as far as to put a lock on the water meter going to the property on the outskirts of town.
  — Irene Wright, USA Today, 18 June 2026
• According to the district, the most common water meter size in Solana Beach is ¾ inch.
  — Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Jan. 2025
• Check soil moisture with your finger or an inexpensive water meter and water plants when the upper one to two inches feels dry.
  — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 2 May 2026
• Attaching the sensor to the water meter itself turned out to be no more difficult than tightening a belt.
  — Adam Tschorn, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
• Check to make sure that all the valves closest to the water meter are fully opened (in the case of a well system, this would be valves closest to the home’s pressure tank).
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2023
• In the 2018 Camp Fire, plastic pipes and water meters melted.
  — Pien Huang, NPR, 11 Jan. 2025
• The maximum allowable fee for wastewater was found to be $2,521 for the same size of water meter.
  — Paul Wedding, Houston Chronicle, 8 Oct. 2019
• Eckert struck a water meter valve, an SRP electrical box and Lans.
  — Katelyn Keenehan, The Arizona Republic, 1 Oct. 2020