hydrant
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The Newtown Dream Dog Park is one of the best in the country, outfitted with sprinklers, a spraying hydrant, hoops, tunnels and more.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2025
Insecurity is not uncommon among artists—or the rest of us—but few stars broadcast their anxieties to the world like Eilish: She is wildly open, the emotional equivalent of a fire hydrant spraying a summer sidewalk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025
At least one of the tankers filled at a hydrant reserved for fire engines, according to an activist who spoke to the driver and photographed paperwork showing his destination.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2025
Thursday morning, striking a fire hydrant and tree.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2025
But the words were coming out of him like the water spraying from a broken fire hydrant in summer, and he could not have stopped them if he had tried.
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
Out in the yard, the fire hydrants received a fresh, bright coat of yellow paint.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
Kids decorated their bikes with stars and stripes, marched in local parades and painted local fire hydrants red, white and blue–faded examples of which could be seen well into the ’80s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Then move on over to the fire hydrants.
From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2026
Many fire hydrants, particularly in higher-elevation areas, lost pressure and ran dry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026
Alice Evans was trying to make fire hydrants out of clay, which so far just looked like pathetic lumps.
From "When You Reach Me" by Rebecca Stead
Vocabulary lists containing hydrant
Elements of the Universe: Hydr, Hydro ("Water")
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Roots: hydr
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