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Example sentences for: pipes

How can you use “pipes” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

This is important because as faster, so-called broadband Internet access becomes more widespread, there will be a fierce battle to control both the data pipes that come into our homes and the content that goes through them.
A slim-waisted woman, closely resembling the figure down the corridor in A Courtyard in Delft , raises her cup to two men, one of whom pretends to play a fiddle with two pipes.
The Latin plumbum weight gives us the symbol, Pb (along with words like plumb, plumb bob , and plumber one who works with lead and lead pipes.
And we can't have the coffee that comes with our complimentary continental breakfast because they might have drawn the water first thing in the morning without letting the taps run for the two minutes required to flush the lead out of the pipes.
In macroscopic terms, water movement through plants had long been thought of as a biophysical problem, as a topic of capillary resistance in pressurized pipes terminating in 'sprinkler' systems - the stomata - whose apertures adjust when responding to changes in hydraulic pressure.