hose

My muscles burned and my back screamed as I raced up and down the stairs, dragging the hose around door frames.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

The company that began in Switzerland with a pair of scissors and some garden hose is now conquering America.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

Crews returned the following day to remove the hose.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

"Think a bit more like being a powerful hose in the wind. Some areas get force and others don't."

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

It changes again to show men and women marching, even against the blast of a fire hose.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

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 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

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

In the kitchen were four men, two of whom wore black doublet and hosen, black caps with a black feather, and were sallow-looking counterparts of the last arrival.

From Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea by Tom Bevan

In the Bush," said I, "the backwoods aristocracy make little of your silk hosen, Claudia.

From The Little Red Foot by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Here, marmots crawl inside vehicles to chew hoses and lap up fluid, sometimes disabling cars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

When hosepipe bans are in force sports grounds can use hoses or sprinklers - but only to water grass areas "actively used for play".

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

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 upright sprigs of Mama Boanda’s hair dripped from their ends, like a tiny garden of leaking hoses.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

As the country raged that the Broncos got hosed, the man in charge of the team took the high road.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

For example, water is being hosed onto the greens during the opening two rounds to stop them from drying out, and to keep the grass alive.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026

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

It was as though the room had been designed to be hosed out for efficient cleaning.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith

"I don't know what possessed me," the drummer grimaces, while trying to insist the hosing "was an act of kindness and love because it was a hot day".

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Apr. 25, 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

Some have hired professional remediation firms while others are throwing out damaged toys and furniture, scrubbing walls and hosing down playground equipment themselves in the hopes of being able to welcome children back.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2025

More were at work on their boats, polishing brass, sitting on deck splicing ropes, hosing down the sails.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt