hosing

Example Sentences

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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

Jolie’s father and Nema spent the night of the fire hosing down the house in an attempt to ward off the flames.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2025

He kept hosing: “I could see progress from the helicopters.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2025

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

From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith