hose
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At one early event, they had to rig a hose to a bar faucet to fill the ice baths.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Instead, two fire hose cabinets sit in each gallery, one at the front, and one near Cell 24.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
The curriculum combined fire hose blasts of information about rod physics and trout-stream entomology with hands-on instruction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
Rescuers had provided him with more than ten liters of water to keep him hydrated via a hose and installed a tube to provide him with oxygen.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
Nicole turned the hose off, wound it up out of Pet’s reach, then joined them.
From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith
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 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 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
I would be loth, for my sake you should receaue harme at his hande.' 'feare you not,' quoth these stout wemen, 'let her not geue the watch word vntyl his hosen be abaut his legges.
From The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare's Youth Awdeley's 'Fraternitye of vacabondes' and Harman's 'Caveat' by John Awdeley
Also the alder, whose bark is not unprofitable to dye black withal, and therefore much used by our country wives in colouring their knit hosen.
From Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison by William Harrison
A tiler in civilian life, he has spent days rushing water and carrying hoses behind the firefighters beating back the blazes near his home in the beach resort of Lanton in southwest France.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
The use of garden hoses has been temporarily banned because of drought.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
The charity said 27 of its staff and volunteers were out helping fight the blaze earlier in the week, using equipment including all-terrain vehicles with water bowsers, backpack hoses and shovels.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Because the covers can conform to complex shapes, they could protect a wide variety of components, including rovers, robotic joints, hoses, and other moving hardware.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
They're connected by hoses, but they're also not stupid.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
Anyone who bought gold in the late 1970s or early 1980s got hosed — while stocks and bonds boomed.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2025
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
A Forest Service report said it could not rule out potential heavy metal impurities in retardant, which was hosed down from firefighting planes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2024
Some never even got hosed off, they were stashed in such a hurry.
From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings
Firefighters quickly began hosing down the smoking reactor -- "they didn't let the fire spread," Solovyov said.
From Barron's ● Apr. 25, 2026
Two workers were loading equipment onto trucks and a third was hosing the fresh cement that will sit under a new house.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2025
In Los Angeles County, local news showed those near the Hughes fire hosing down their homes and yards with water and others rushing to evacuate neighbourhoods.
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2025
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
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
