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Test each drain on your property by placing a garden hose in it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

"Think a bit more like being a powerful hose in the wind. Some areas get force and others don't."

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

When officers finally acted, they pulled only half the hose out, leaving the rest coiled inside the cabinet, and stood there baffled as to why the water wouldn’t flow.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026

Pairs of divers, connected to the surface via an air hose and audiovisual cables, were slowly lowered into the water.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

I righted the can and stuffed the garden hose inside.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

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

He went, and returned again soon, having in his arms my father-in-law's hosen and waistcoat, and said to my wife, 'Your father is done for.'

From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. by Gustav Freytag

“No, thank you; for my little boy,” says Eugen, politely, glancing deferentially round at the piles of wool and packets of hosen around.

From The First Violin A Novel by Jessie Fothergill

Images released by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine show firefighters directing water hoses at burning vehicles amid clouds of smoke on a street in Pavlohrad.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

"We're still short of hoses, which makes it hard for us to extinguish this fire."

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

As the fire raged, mother and son used garden hoses to defend their property as nearby dwellings were torched.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

So he did the unthinkable: He sent a tractor rigged with a water tank and hoses into the vineyard to hydrate his most vulnerable vines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

Workers scrambled to get the pumping system back online, patching the hoses that could be salvaged and cobbling together any new hoses they could find to replace the ones that could not.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

As the country raged that the Broncos got hosed, the man in charge of the team took the high road.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

If people get hosed by, say, a bear market in stocks, taxpayers will end up on the hook supporting them anyway.

From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026

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

Firefighters used heavy foam to prevent the fire from spreading further, while other tankers were hosed down to prevent more explosions.

From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2025

It was as though the room had been designed to be hosed out for efficient cleaning.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith

Firefighters quickly began hosing down the smoking reactor -- "they didn't let the fire spread," Solovyov said.

From Barron's ● Apr. 25, 2026

In between matches, hard-working staff are hosing down the courts to cool the sand.

From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026

Images from the scene showed an emergency team hosing down the landing gear on a Loganair ATR 72 aircraft, which had been due to depart at 10:05.

From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2025

Some have hired professional remediation firms while others are throwing out damaged toys and furniture, scrubbing walls and hosing down playground equipment themselves in the hopes of being able to welcome children back.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2025

Like, too old to be hosing down blazing houses, that’s for sure.

From "All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds