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The Consumer Product Safety Commission issued an alert last month warning customers to immediately stop using and dispose of these faucets.—Jamie Gold, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025 If pests persist, rub them off with your fingers, a soft toothbrush, or a blast of water, from a hose or from your kitchen faucet.—Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2025 The dishwashing sink leaked when filled and a hand sink was missing the hot water faucet handle.—Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 3 June 2025 These hose faucets work just like your kitchen sink.—Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 31 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for faucet
Word History
Etymology
Middle English, bung, faucet, from Middle French fausset bung, perhaps from fausser to damage, from Late Latin falsare to falsify, from Latin falsus false
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