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"We understand this affects local residents, with a hose laid across pavements and driveways, and apologise for the frustration this causes," it said.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

When officers finally acted, they pulled only half the hose out, leaving the rest coiled inside the cabinet, and stood there baffled as to why the water wouldn’t flow.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 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

Elfers also said it was very common for a boat engine, which does not have a closed cooling system like a car, to have a hose that pops or a hose clamp that fails.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 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

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

With my hosen I had to give up my purse full of money, which I had hid there three hours before, and thus had preserved from the first pilferers.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. by Gustav Freytag

They had most of them long hosen up to their groins, close made, and above their groins to their waist another leather; they were altogether like the Irish trousers.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I by Henry Cabot Lodge

"It's always the firefighters on the ground, pulling the hoses, who extinguish the fires," he says.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

The use of garden hoses has been temporarily banned because of drought.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026

Because the covers can conform to complex shapes, they could protect a wide variety of components, including rovers, robotic joints, hoses, and other moving hardware.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026

Farmers in tractors tugged water cisterns and aimed hoses at the blaze.

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

In the hours before the explosion, workers had laid out fire hoses in preparation for the seawater injection, but those had been damaged by the blast.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

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

The towering pillars and crossbars of the Golden Lotus Temple were hosed down by the Asads and are once again gleaming white.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2025

Then he walked outside and hosed down his car, blasting away the Idaho dust until it looked as though it had never seen a dirt road.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

Another instance included allegedly hosing down a congregant’s car.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Apr. 25, 2026

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

From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2025

The firefighters now directed all their attention to adjacent buildings, hosing down nearby roofs with fire retardant.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman