hose
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In some areas, the hose crosses tracks and passes through private property.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
That shift can train a veritable fire hose of tropical moisture at Southern California, potentially leading to significant rainfall across the region — albeit at the cost of drier-than-usual conditions elsewhere.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Elfers also said it was very common for a boat engine, which does not have a closed cooling system like a car, to have a hose that pops or a hose clamp that fails.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Rescuers had provided him with more than ten liters of water to keep him hydrated via a hose and installed a tube to provide him with oxygen.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
They were sweeping the streets and sprinkling them with a hose.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
Born in Nieder-Rehback, Austria-Hungary, 69 years ago, Victor Berger attended the Universities of Vienna and Budapest, arrived in the U. S. in 1878 with $75 in his hosen.
From Time Magazine Archive
He opened a large chest and found underlinen and hosen, a hood with a long peak, and a warm cloak.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
He pulled off Robin’s hosen and carried him into the water, holding and dipping him where the current ran deep.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
In the Bush," said I, "the backwoods aristocracy make little of your silk hosen, Claudia.
From The Little Red Foot by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
With my hosen I had to give up my purse full of money, which I had hid there three hours before, and thus had preserved from the first pilferers.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav
"It can help us with detection but it's not technology that puts out fires; you need people to pull the hoses through the forest to attack them."
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
A tiler in civilian life, he has spent days rushing water and carrying hoses behind the firefighters beating back the blazes near his home in the beach resort of Lanton in southwest France.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
There, the vessels carrying Iranian oil use giant hoses to transfer it at sea to other oil tankers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Because the covers can conform to complex shapes, they could protect a wide variety of components, including rovers, robotic joints, hoses, and other moving hardware.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
Fortunately, there were no straps or hoses dangling loose.
From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins
Anyone who bought gold in the late 1970s or early 1980s got hosed — while stocks and bonds boomed.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2025
And by 7 a.m., it’s all over: the seafood is gone, the floors are hosed down, and a full day’s business has come and gone before you’ve even had your morning coffee.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2025
A Forest Service report said it could not rule out potential heavy metal impurities in retardant, which was hosed down from firefighting planes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2024
When he and his son arrived around 4:15 a.m., the Fire Department had broken the market doors down and hosed things off.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 9, 2024
In the evenings there were bonfires and steamer clams, mussels, oysters, and perch, the boats dragged up beyond the tide line, the shovels and rakes hosed off and put away.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
Firefighters quickly began hosing down the smoking reactor -- "they didn't let the fire spread," Solovyov said.
From Barron's ● Apr. 25, 2026
In Los Angeles County, local news showed those near the Hughes fire hosing down their homes and yards with water and others rushing to evacuate neighbourhoods.
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2025
He kept hosing: “I could see progress from the helicopters.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2025
It was a life’s work, and Lubanski stood outside the building hosing it down until the building next door caught fire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2025
Like, too old to be hosing down blazing houses, that’s for sure.
From "All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds
