Example Sentences

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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

A woman with platinum hair was hosing off windows.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2021

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 Crosby, Raymond Moreau