fire hose

noun

1. a special heavy-duty hose for use in fighting destructive fires.

Example Sentences

Firefighters wielding fire hoses struggled to temper the blaze, which roared into the night and through the next day.

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Around the South, local authorities were turning police dogs and fire hoses on the young protesters who were pressing our nation for equal opportunity and freedom now.

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In fact, the longest recorded newspaper strike lasted over 10 years at the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader in Pennsylvania, and was marked by violence in which picketers were sprayed with fire hoses by company security.

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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.

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The next day, when firefighters returned to collect fire hoses, “it appeared to them that the fire was fully extinguished,” according to an affidavit by a special agent with the ATF.

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