flushing
Example Sentences
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As Celebrity President Laura Hodges Bethge put it: “You want hundreds of people flushing toilets at the same time.”
May 13, 1988: “Cut down on toilet flushing. One flush will do for the whole family at bedtime. Remember, each flush uses 8 gallons of water.”
From Los Angeles Times
They said Wagner mercenaries were flushing out small groups of Ukrainian fighters, including one holed up in an administrative building.
From Reuters
“If the choice is between flushing Idaho’s upper Snake River water downstream for four dams in Washington state, I choose keeping Idaho water for Idahoans,” he said.
From Seattle Times
On Sept. 15, 1976, a dynamite blast ripped apart one of the Alabama Hills aqueduct gatehouse’s five gates, flushing 100 million gallons of water into the valley floor.
From Los Angeles Times
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