hose
noun
a flexible tube for conveying a liquid, as water, to a desired point.
was hosing
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past progressiveof hose.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Two workers were loading equipment onto trucks and a third was hosing the fresh cement that will sit under a new house.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2025
Urban Alchemy officials said the worker was hosing the sidewalk to clean feces left by the unhoused person in the video, whom they have subsequently placed in transitional housing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2024
My first job at the Comedy Store was hosing down Lenny Schultz.
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2020
Later, as Norman was hosing out the vomit, his neighbor came out to apologize.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 5, 2016
At the left, a fountain-sprayer now whirled a mist of water over the trim grass, and far to the rear a man in rubber boots was hosing off a phaeton before a carriage house.
From Captivating Mary Carstairs by Raymond Moreau Crosby
