Washbasin

The washbasin is made of granite.

The drain in the washbasin is blocked.

The washbasin was full of hair!

Horned toads hopped about; each of the four upper corners of the room was festooned with a thick cobweb, in the center of which sat a spider as big around as a washbasin, and armed with pincher-like claws; a red-and-green lizard was stretched at full length on the window-sill and black rats darted in and out of the holes they had gnawed in the floor of the cottage.

Why did we get a washbasin? It's so cumbersome!