running water
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.05 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The rural population of the United States in 1950 was 57.5 million; ( of this total 22 percent was served by running water) and used an estimated 3,500 million gallons of water per day."
- "A public system or private company refers to any source supplying running water to six or more housing units."
- "The things I previously seen as life's necessities—proper running water to drink and wash with, sanitary restrooms, and local medical help—were nowhere to be found in this God-forsaken little town."
- "In sight of the river, their factories' source for water, they often live without running water and electricity [...because] the river becomes polluted with industrial wastewater as well as untreated, raw sewage."
- "At the time being middle class in America meant education for the children and modern home conveniences, most basically, hot and cold running water."
- "First, since resettled people had to move into existing communities in designated resettlement areas, policy adjustment to assist host communities with running water and electricity were needed."