fire hose

NOUN
  1. a large hose that carries water from a fire hydrant to the site of the fire
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How To Use fire hose In A Sentence

  • His only grand gesture is to turn on the fire hoses to prevent the pirates shinning up the side (unsuccessful). Times, Sunday Times
  • Firefighters used fire hoses to clean the aircraft and the ramp.
  • Where water from fire hoses or water main leaks had come in contact with this substance, it created small pools that resembled slush.
  • An effigy of the kaiser is washed down Wall Street with a fire hose; confetti pours down; 800 Barnard girls snake-dance on Morningside Heights, and a coffin made of soapboxes is paraded down Madison, with the kaiser symbolically resting in pieces within. L. Debard and Aliette
  • Linen was also used for fire hoses, parachute webbing and heavy-duty canvas.
  • In many cases it is desirable to force water considerably above the pump itself, as, for instance, in the fire hose; under such circumstances a type of pump is employed which has received the name of _force pump_. General Science
  • Jeering and cursing us, the guards ran in the fire hose and played the fierce streams on us, dungeon by dungeon, hour after hour, until our bruised flesh was battered all anew by the violence with which the water smote us, until we stood knee-deep in the water which we had raved for and for which now we raved to cease. Chapter 4
  • It began with fire hoses, and then was fought with fire boats - and finally, giant industrial pumps.
  • In addition, fire hoses in the residence hall were disconnected and partially dismantled because the equipment was outdated.
  • And for me, it is like taking what drinking water from a fire hose.
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