fire hose

noun

: a hose used to spray water on a fire

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The first 50 days of the new administration have felt a little bit like drinking from a fire hose—but the Trump White House has delivered on its pledges and more. Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025 Tables are broken, a beaver is thrown into a wall, glass bottles break (with the cost of their damage appearing onscreen) and a fish is used as a fire hose. Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025 There was a thick old fire hose in the loft that Joyce had installed for Ricks. Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2025 As Chinese residents struggled to extinguish the blaze, a crowd of white residents began pelting them with rocks and cut the fire hose. Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for fire hose

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“Fire hose.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fire%20hose. Accessed 9 May. 2025.

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