1.   From the bathrooms came a chorus of flushing toilets, as diplomats, military and government officials flushed away their identity papers.

2.   In blessed relief from winter, rural Mainers are flushing toilets whenever the need arises.

3.   In old houses, flushing toilets and slamming doors can also be annoying.

4.   Ms. Grossmann implicitly tells off a lover by holding a phone next to a flushing toilet.

5.   Ninety-nine percent of American homes have at least one television, making them a more ubiquitous feature of the landscape than telephones or flushing toilets.

6.   No sinks or flushing toilets.

7.   Or one can hear how jazz, or snoring, or a flushing toilet, sounds in those same spaces.

8.   Others filled all available containers, from plastic barrels to washing machines, with water for everything from cooking to flushing toilets.

9.   Pitt County Memorial Hospital pumped water from its rehabilitation pool for uses other than drinking, including flushing toilets and cleaning floors.

10.   The little tropical island nation, with laws against everything from sitting to spitting to flushing public toilets, failed in only one area of social engineering.