hose

Example Sentences

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In between matches, hard-working staff are hosing down the courts to cool the sand.

From BBC

He is the guy with the back pack and hose, shuffling backwards down the sheet inside the near-empty Cortina Curling Stadium, spraying plumes of water into the air.

From BBC

A week or two before a race, a team of workers uses hoses to spray down the entire course with the intent of it freezing over by morning.

From Los Angeles Times

Even at that distance, the comet was losing water at a rate of about 40 kilograms per second, comparable to water blasting from a fully opened fire hose.

From Science Daily

Marco Rossi was in the third ring, hosing down an elephant and scrubbing her wrinkled gray skin with a long-handled deck brush.

From Literature