hose

Example Sentences

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A week or two before a race, a team of workers uses hoses to spray down the entire course with the intent of it freezing over by morning.

From Los Angeles Times

Even at that distance, the comet was losing water at a rate of about 40 kilograms per second, comparable to water blasting from a fully opened fire hose.

From Science Daily

Marco Rossi was in the third ring, hosing down an elephant and scrubbing her wrinkled gray skin with a long-handled deck brush.

From Literature

This ghost rattles industrial hoses and temporarily melds with an air purifier.

From Los Angeles Times

Gardner previously said that more than 100 firefighters used hoses to put a “wet line” around the Balcom fire perimeter, while bulldozers cut away vegetation in its path and aircraft caked the ground with retardant.

From Los Angeles Times