How to Use indoor plumbing in a Sentence

indoor plumbing

noun
  • Now would be the time to make sure your indoor plumbing is ready for the cold weather.
    — Leo Bertucci, The Courier-Journal, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Stacy just doesn’t want to vacation in a place without indoor plumbing.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Basic amenities like sidewalks, paved roads and indoor plumbing were lacking.
    — Kathryn Varn, Axios, 16 Sep. 2024
  • New appliances, indoor plumbing, a 50-foot spruce, and a reindeer corral put it over the top.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Dec. 2023
  • The city was thoroughly up to date, with electric lights, indoor plumbing, streetcars, and even telephones.
    — Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 8 May 2026
  • Schools for Black children lacked indoor plumbing, water fountains, kitchens and lunchrooms.
    — Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Apr. 2025
  • And the absence of indoor plumbing necessitates waste removal on a massive scale.
    — Eric Schlosser, The Atlantic, 4 June 2026
  • The infidels’ free speech or their indoor plumbing and electricity?
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Bathing culture is big in Japan, and before most houses had indoor plumbing, people got sudsy at the public bath or sento.
    — Jessica Kozuka, Travel + Leisure, 1 June 2026
  • There was no electricity in Taos or indoor plumbing, the roads were mud and only one telephone in town was wired to the outside world.
    — Kealey Boyd, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Think of the advent of indoor plumbing or the installation of natural gas lines or building roads and highways.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Now a new house is arriving on a barge, and soon Mama Sue will have indoor plumbing and running water for the first time.
    — Kyle Hopkins, ProPublica, 11 Nov. 2023
  • The Tizards installed indoor plumbing and added electricity to the home.
    — Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Among them are an elderly couple living in a village without running water or indoor plumbing.
    — Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Original shotgun homes were also built before indoor plumbing.
    — Alyssa Longobucco, House Beautiful, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The tiny homes that make up two-thirds of the dwellings go for slightly lower, but have no indoor plumbing; their residents use communal bathhouses and kitchens.
    — Lucy Tompkins Eli Durst, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Centuries ago, before indoor plumbing, people would use outhouses separate from their homes.
    — Ashley J. Dimella Fox News, Fox News, 16 Jan. 2025
  • That allows most – but not all – Americans to have indoor plumbing and reasonably safe drinking water.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Though the place relies on solar power and lacks indoor plumbing, these minor inconveniences are a small price to pay for the chance to commune with the cosmos.
    — Tim Nelson, Architectural Digest, 31 Mar. 2025
  • The lodge is basic and isolated, heated by a lone woodstove and without indoor plumbing, cell service, or internet.
    — Jesse James McTigue, Outside Online, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Ruth Jean’s younger years were lived in a drafty, leaky shack with no electricity, running water or indoor plumbing, and no heat aside from a wood stove in the winter.
    — Joyce Sáenz Harris, Dallas News, 24 Aug. 2023
  • In the beginning, there was no electricity, running water, or indoor plumbing.
    — Patricia English Garner, Southern Living, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The palace itself was ahead of its time, even equipped with electricity, a telephone and indoor plumbing five years before the White House.
    — Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 18 May 2026
  • When one has been invited to stay overnight in a home without indoor plumbing, but is provided with a chamber pot (no lid) under the bed, what does one do with it the next morning?
    — Judith Martin, Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2025
  • When sealed correctly, a faucet cover traps heat radiating from indoor plumbing around the tap, preventing it from freezing and causing a burst pipe.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 12 Dec. 2024
  • When sealed correctly, a faucet cover traps heat radiating from indoor plumbing around the tap, preventing it from freezing and causing a burst pipe.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 22 Jan. 2026
  • When sealed correctly, a faucet cover traps heat radiating from indoor plumbing around the tap, preventing it from freezing and causing a burst pipe.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 29 Nov. 2025
  • As indoor plumbing’s prevalence grew, in part thanks to housing codes and mass manufacturing, public bathing receded.
    — Lia Picard, New York Times, 9 June 2023
  • Lee grew up in the '60s and '70s on the reservation during a time when his family had no indoor plumbing, and water was hauled in.
    — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Camps like Galang in Indonesia lacked electricity and indoor plumbing.
    — Lauren Vuong, Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2025

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