How to Use spigot in a Sentence

spigot

noun
  • Hook the hose up to the spigot behind the house.
  • The spigots close off at 4 p.m., when the 21+ event opens to all ages.
    Benjy Egel, sacbee, 22 Jan. 2018
  • The spigot is short, which may be hard for some to turn.
    Better Homes & Gardens, 8 June 2022
  • The man’s feet were splayed against the pink tile on either side of the spigot.
    Jamie Quatro, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
  • In the evenings, as people turn in for the night, managers turn down the spigot.
    Zak Podmore, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 May 2022
  • Now the Fed is ready to turn the spigot in the other direction.
    Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2022
  • This is a standard hose spigot with a long pipe on the back end that extends through the side of the house.
    Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 5 Nov. 2019
  • That payment appears to have marked the opening of the spigot on years of loans.
    Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2024
  • By 1930, Congress was ready to wrest control of the spigot.
    Tristan Baurick, nola.com, 15 June 2019
  • April and May didn’t bring a lot of rain and then the spigot turned on and seemingly hasn’t turned off since.
    Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Progressive groups and unions kept the spigots on for Northam.
    Fenit Nirappil, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2017
  • There’s not a spigot to turn on that’s going to come pouring out oil.
    David Blackmon, Forbes, 12 June 2022
  • When the money spigot stays on, everybody stays paid, the rank and file stays in line.
    Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Others kept small crops alive with buckets of water hauled down from a spigot at the top of the hill.
    Joe Mozingo, latimes.com, 4 June 2018
  • Bats had been roosting in the trees where locals set up spigots to collect the tasty sap.
    Katie Hunt, CNN, 29 Jan. 2020
  • The Fed, of course, turned on the money spigot in March 2020, and greenbacks rained down on us for nearly two years.
    Brett Owens, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2022
  • Wrap the spigot threads with Teflon tape, then screw the spigot into the union fitting on the outside of the barrel.
    Viveka Neveln, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 May 2024
  • In June, the same group opened up the spigot again, adding production to keep prices from getting too high.
    Anatoly Kurmanaev, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2018
  • Once a month works, as does a weekly misting or a splash under the spigot.
    Jennifer Dixon, Detroit Free Press, 1 Sep. 2023
  • That should start closing the spigot on Iran’s revenue sources.
    Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 16 May 2018
  • The cutoff marks the end of a colossal spigot of stimulus funds.
    The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 6 Sep. 2021
  • Turn off the spigot, then connect the other end of the hose to the water intake on the pressure washer.
    Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 July 2023
  • As the spigot of VC money dries up, a Darwinian culling of the herd may occur.
    Paddy Padmanabhan, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022
  • If Russia turns off the spigot to Europe, that’s going to hurt.
    Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 28 Jan. 2022
  • The output spigot is located near the bottom of the barrel but not all the way at the bottom.
    Andrea Wurzburger, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Why, then, does the spigot of criticism from some of his peers remain so wide open?
    Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Feb. 2022
  • Use a drill bit that's a little smaller than or the same size as the spigot or union fitting (matched to the size of your spigot).
    Viveka Neveln, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 May 2024
  • The spigot was on a wall next to a drink refill station, according to the lawsuit.
    Jeanne Houck, Cincinnati.com, 14 June 2018
  • Understandably, Biden plans to meet the Saudis to open the oil spigot.
    Charlie Dent, CNN, 26 June 2022
  • Zoom in: Congressional Democrats who had been on the back foot and feeling resigned to Biden as the nominee took Pelosi's comments as an invitation to turn the spigot back on.
    Andrew Solender, Axios, 11 July 2024

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