hosing

Example Sentences

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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

The prime minister promised back in September to allow veterans to get onto social hosing lists more easily.

From BBC • Nov. 8, 2024

Urban Alchemy officials said the worker was hosing the sidewalk to clean feces left by the unhoused person in the video, whom they have subsequently placed in transitional housing.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2024

“All wasteful water use such as hosing down driveways and impervious surfaces, allowing water to flow unattended and using water in a grossly inefficient manner, is prohibited,” the Southwest Florida Water Management District website says.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2023

Chief Marshal Williams, for instance, had jumped aboard a passing engine and was now at one of the remaining bridge crossings, hosing it down.

From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy