"tap" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In the townships, where families sleep in shifts for lack of beds and draw their water from a communal tap, unemployment runs about 40 percent.
- Just a speed bump separates this suburb from a black peasant reserve where the women carry water jugs home to mud huts from communal taps.
- He pointed at the new reservoir supplying communal taps that used to run dry.
- I remember that we didn't have a tap in the house but used a communal tap from which we had to fill two barrels in our garden.
- Every morning before we went to school, we all had to take a bucket appropriate to our size and run a relay from the communal tap to the barrels until they were full.
- While her smallest children scrounge about for firewood, older children fetch water for bathing and cooking from a communal tap.
- There, women draped in layers of dark clothing draw water from communal taps.
- In Oukasie, there are 54 communal taps for an estimated 10,000 people, and the sewerage is taken away in buckets.
- Did they have to hear other people's whispering that they were traitors to their country every time they went to the communal tap for water?
- The drinking water that flows to the few communal taps comes from a reservoir polluted by two cemeteries that lie submerged in the rainy season.
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