SPRINKLER


Meaning of SPRINKLER in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

lawn

The lawn sprinklers had been switched on and from time to time the breeze blew a gust of spray in their faces.

Women came out of their houses to turn on lawn sprinklers , soaking the marchers as they walked by.

Remembering that what we were experiencing was meant to be enjoyable left our wits spinning like a lawn sprinkler .

To return to the analogy of the lawn sprinkler and the rainstorm, both can explain how the driveway got wet.

There was a movie theater playing True Grit and a plywood chapel with lawn sprinklers around it.

system

That is supposed to be the sprinkler system for wetting down the dust.

An example would be the installation of a sprinkler system that was forced on the tenant by the local fire authority.

In common with all other forms of fire defence systems , however, a sprinkler system has limitations.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Access is very restricted to personnel and most systems are heavily protected by sprinklers.

As a householder you should pay particular attention to outdoor threaded bib-taps which are usually used for garden hoses and sprinklers.

Because sprinklers can wet the drive does not prove that they did wet the drive.

Ian Durrant told me that later that the ball had bounced off a sprinkler head.

Late in the second day, they passed miles and miles of spinach fields watered with sprinklers.

That is supposed to be the sprinkler system for wetting down the dust.

To return to the analogy of the lawn sprinkler and the rainstorm, both can explain how the driveway got wet.

Women came out of their houses to turn on lawn sprinklers, soaking the marchers as they walked by.

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