hose

Example Sentences

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A giant hose is lifted from the laden ship to the empty one and oil is pumped, sometimes more than a million barrels at a go.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

This enabled them to focus their unstaffed hose lines on the internal tank to cool the chemical more effectively, dropping the temperature to around 92 degrees.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026

This gives the heart a bigger job of pumping it around the body and it copes by dialling up the blood pressure - a bit like cranking the tap on a garden hose pipe.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

"A lot of energy systems, power plants have rubber parts. Everybody's had a garden hose that started leaking because a rubber gasket failed. Now imagine that happening in a power plant or a chemical plant."

From Science Daily • May 13, 2026

The only person I could see around was our older neighbor across the street, who was watering the hydrangea bushes lining his front yard with a hose.

From "From the Desk of Zoe Washington" by Janae Marks