hydrant

Example Sentences

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The Newtown Dream Dog Park is one of the best in the country, outfitted with sprinklers, a spraying hydrant, hoops, tunnels and more.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 29, 2025

Insecurity is not uncommon among artists—or the rest of us—but few stars broadcast their anxieties to the world like Eilish: She is wildly open, the emotional equivalent of a fire hydrant spraying a summer sidewalk.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025

At least one of the tankers filled at a hydrant reserved for fire engines, according to an activist who spoke to the driver and photographed paperwork showing his destination.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 2, 2025

The Cybertruck careened instead into a fire hydrant, then a tree, before bursting into flames.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2025

It was a beautiful Brooklyn summer evening, the hydrant spraying water all over everything, the sidewalk, the cars, the kids.

From "When I Was the Greatest" by Jason Reynolds