flushing
Example Sentences
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Alonso, the Mets’ all-time leader in home runs, had been with the organization since he was drafted in 2016 and was one of the most popular figures ever to play in Flushing.
Scaled up, the chip industry drinks like a metropolis of several million people, except instead of flushing toilets they’re rinsing transistors measured in atoms.
From MarketWatch
Roman Aminov, an attorney based in Flushing, N.Y., says he has probated wills belonging to someone who had died more than 25 years before.
From MarketWatch
He urged residents to use water only for flushing toilets or showering, and said water could not be "used for drinking and cooking without boiling first".
From BBC
As Celebrity President Laura Hodges Bethge put it: “You want hundreds of people flushing toilets at the same time.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.