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Plumbing in sentence

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And so to give you an idea of an analogy of what I mean by thinking of cancering as a verb, imagine we didn't know anything about plumbing, and the way that we talked about it, we'd come home and we'd find a leak in our kitchen and we'd say, "Oh, my house has water."
It had no windows, no plumbing, no electricity and it was filled with trash.
I set up my studio in the red-light district and obsessively wrapped myself in plumbing tubing, and found a way to redefine the skin and create this dynamic textile.
So I said to myself, "I'm an engineer, I'm in R&D, this is just a plumbing problem."
I've taught myself to sew, cook, fix plumbing, build furniture, I can even pat myself on the back when necessary, all so I don't have to ask anyone for anything.
Did they have indoor or outdoor plumbing?
Instead, there is a specialized network of plumbing that organizes and facilitates this process.
It's like, are science and plumbing compatible?
But what really happened is, every day they had a thousand copies, each of whom did a two-hour plumbing job, and only one of them went on to the next day.
Their plumbing system turns off, so the sites have to move.
Red drew me into this little composition, optimistic to me in the sense that maybe the public service's mailbox, door service, plumbing.
As an art form it lies somewhere between still-life painting and plumbing.
We then put in plumbing, electrical and HVAC, and insulate.
And there were other moments I found amusing -- Raymond's parents in the bathroom with the defective plumbing, and the scene in the restaurant with Robert Montgomery trying to make Carole Lombard jealous by mouthing sweet nothings to a stranger.
As I was watching the dozens of Morlocks who were gorging themselves on human flesh, it occurred to me that they must have a very advanced toilet & plumbing system, considering that they were tossing in lots of bones.
Give me modern plumbing and I'll gladly become a Kettle.
After realising plumbing and electricity is muddled up by a cross-eyed repairman, the Doctor comes in for a check-up, and after some tests, he recommends drinking goat's milk and getting some sea air on the ocean.
I pride myself on plumbing the depths of 70's sleaze cinema from everything from Salo to Salon Kitty.
The quote (or scene) I recall vividly is when Hemo tires of "all this plumbing ... you haven't learned my secrets at all" and threatens to storm out, the Scientist answers him in a single word "Thalassa" -- salt water which horrifies the Fiction Writer but mollifies Hemo and segues so neatly into the chemical aspects of blood.
A kitchen sink world of bakeries, and hairdressers, and plumbing, but one that shimmers with a soft luminescence.
And as a tenant in this building, she suffers far worse conditions than leaky plumbing and the occasional water bug, to put it mildly!
I won't illustrate it - you can see a remarkably long list of quotes on this thread - but any film that can make subjects like the defense of using expensive copper piping rather than brass for plumbing purposes into memorable dialog is amazing to me.
All these villagers have food and clothing, and running water and plumbing.
You get to see Troy and Zap uncover the ancient map room complete with leaking plumbing.
In a sense, that scene has been "used up" and dramaturgically useless since "The Sting", and all the subsequent "big con" movies of the 80's and 90's, have had to add some very special extra ingredient - such as Mamet's plumbing of the sexual and psychological abysses beneath the "con/mark" relation - in order to be movies of any even limited note.
Not trusting the corrupt mayor (Bill Murray) Doon seeks his father's (Tim Robbins) advice and help from an aging plumbing worker (Martin Landau).
For example, although the case for copper seems straightforward, given that it is a key input for wiring, electronics, and indoor plumbing, a strong bid for iron is not as obvious, given the Chinese infrastructure boom that already has occurred in the last two decades.
As the composition of China’s economy continues to shift from investment to consumption, demand for commodity-intensive consumer durables – cars, mobile phones, indoor plumbing, computers, and televisions – will rise.
Northwestern University’s Robert Gordon has argued that the economic impact of today’s innovations doesn’t hold a candle to that of plumbing or electricity.
With no significant financial crisis since the Great Depression, it was convenient to take for granted that the financial plumbing worked in the background.
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