pipe

Example Sentences

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Even if this proves to be the exception, a near-term reversion to prewar oil prices sounds like a pipe dream.

From Barron's • Apr. 6, 2026

Water supply issues in an area of Kent have been resolved after properties were left without water for three days following a burst pipe at a treatment works.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

The team created the nanoscrolls by rolling flat MXene flakes into tiny tubular structures that are about ten thousand times thinner than a water pipe.

From Science Daily • Mar. 31, 2026

One of L.A.’s pollution chiefs warned that “anyone who smokes a pipe, even, contributes to the smog menace.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

Some nights he would sit in his rocker on the porch, and smoke his pipe until way in the night.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls