hose
noun
a flexible tube for conveying a liquid, as water, to a desired point.
Example Sentences
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Cloaked in toxic haze that can burn years off a person's lifespan, volunteers have been digging ponds, canals and borewells through bone-dry peat in a desperate attempt to keep their hoses tapped.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
English summers are increasingly marked by a once rare ritual: water companies imposing monthslong bans on the use of garden hoses, leaving a nation of gardeners to hand-water their gardens or watch their plants die.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
The community "were brilliant", she said, and pulled together to put out flames, using hoses in gardens, while waiting for fire crews who were dealing with other incidents.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
A tiler in civilian life, he has spent days rushing water and carrying hoses behind the firefighters beating back the blazes near his home in the beach resort of Lanton in southwest France.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
So a lot of people were already scrambling to fight the blaze, using garden hoses, buckets, empty Big Gulp cups, and whatever else they could find.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
