Example Sentences

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The Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation and the City of Los Angeles are hosing free watch parties across the region for the World Cup.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

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

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2026

“Staff are hosing them down, disinfecting and drying them off before their next use,” Rodriguez said.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2020

It's the late 1960s, and in front of proper Brooklyn brownstones, people are vomiting and defecating and the renovators and restorers are hosing things down as if applying Clearasil to a skin cancer.

From New York Times • Oct. 10, 2012

Fish market business is done mostly in the morning, I guess, and now men are hosing down the streets and sweeping fish garbage up into piles.

From It’s like this, cat by Neville, Emily