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Then they turned a garden hose on the roof.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

Instead, two fire hose cabinets sit in each gallery, one at the front, and one near Cell 24.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026

In some areas, the hose crosses tracks and passes through private property.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

Water companies in parts of England and Wales have imposed bans on using hose pipes for household tasks and watering plants.

From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026

I righted the can and stuffed the garden hose inside.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

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

And he proposed I should buy winter hosen from a wife in the Cowgate-back, that was a cousin of his own, and made them “extraordinar endurable.”

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

Of this termination we have evident remains in the words oxen, hosen, shoon, eyne, words more or less antiquated.

From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

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

There, the vessels carrying Iranian oil use giant hoses to transfer it at sea to other oil tankers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 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

When the engines and hoses were where he wanted them, Williams turned to one crew and said, “Now, hang on to her here!”

From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy

If people get hosed by, say, a bear market in stocks, taxpayers will end up on the hook supporting them anyway.

From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026

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

As embers the size of golf balls pelted the property, she put out spot fires and hosed down the wood-shingled roofs of the Lake Shrine’s historic buildings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2025

When he and his son arrived around 4:15 a.m., the Fire Department had broken the market doors down and hosed things off.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 9, 2024

Kabuo went back and hosed the net gurry out the scupper holes.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

Firefighters quickly began hosing down the smoking reactor -- "they didn't let the fire spread," Solovyov said.

From Barron's ● Apr. 25, 2026

He worked six days a week, hosing down cars, soaping them up and vacuuming inside.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2025

Like, too old to be hosing down blazing houses, that’s for sure.

From "All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds