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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Nearly a third of homes in the Navajo Nation — spanning 27,000 square miles (70,000 square kilometers) of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah — don’t have running water.
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Susan Montoya Bryan, Fortune, 24 May 2024
Posey grew up on the reservation in a house without running water and was the youngest of 13 siblings born to a Shoshone and Arapaho father and a Cheyenne mother.
—Cy Neff, USA TODAY, 20 May 2024
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Susan Montoya Bryan, Fortune, 24 May 2024
Posey grew up on the reservation in a house without running water and was the youngest of 13 siblings born to a Shoshone and Arapaho father and a Cheyenne mother.
—Cy Neff, USA TODAY, 20 May 2024
See all Example Sentences for running water
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“Running water.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/running%20water. Accessed 6 Jun. 2024.
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