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How to use the word spigot in a Sentence?

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While it's good that over half of the state affiliates have left NSBA, new organizations will spring up in its place, and the underlying problem will still remain: publicly-supported trade associations which claim to represent the views of their constituents are in fact ideologically-captured entities working at cross-purposes to what the majority of American people actually want, it's time to cut off the spigot to these institutions so our tax dollars aren't weaponize against us in the future ever again.

Nicole Neily

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If state-run banks slash rates and turn on the consumer-lending spigot ... the additional liras flooding the system will only drive more dollarisation - exacerbating financial and economic pressures.

Emre Peker

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

It is not like turning on a spigot, today the risk is too high for the reward in many companies.

Carl Icahn

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We are making big sacrifices to save lives, but we can not let our foot off the gas just yet, we will continue to watch the trends, and as soon as the data shows a downward trend, we can open the spigot, a quarter turn at a time, to get folks back to work in a way that's responsible and safe.

Phil Scott

Found on CNN
4 years ago

About half of U.S. consumers' food budget was spent on restaurants, and we've shut that spigot off.

Matt Gould

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The Obama administration seemed to bust taxpayer budgets in an effort to fund the Soros operation, the Trump State Department and USAID should get their act together and disclose the details of the Obama-Soros spigot.

Judicial Watch

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I understand what they're doing. They're going to throw everything including the spigot, the kitchen sink and the pipes at her, but again we need to let justice move forward, if the officers are innocent, they'll be found innocent.

Elijah Cummings

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Carol Doda's Breasts are up there the way one imagines Electra's should have been, two incredible mammiform protrusions, no mere pliable mass of feminine tissues and fats there but living arterial sculpture––viscera spigot––great blown-up aureate morning glories.

Tom Wolfe

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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