fire hydrant
Example Sentences
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In May, a well on the Pecos County property of Laura Briggs started spraying saltwater like a fire hydrant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 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
The Cybertruck careened instead into a fire hydrant, then a tree, before bursting into flames.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2025
They couldn't find the fire hydrant outside which delayed it even more.
From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2025
I did not want to cry, but the tears burst out of me like a newly opened fire hydrant in the summer.
From "Pride" by Ibi Zoboi
