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However, hand watering with a hosepipe or remembering to set the sprinkler each day is a mental load that many simply cannot carry or do not have time for.—
Rebecca Jones,
Southern Living,
27 May 2026 In an interview for a UN Commission report issued last year, a former detainee at the Palestine branch described regular beatings, beatings with a hosepipe and cigarette burns.—
Clarissa Ward,
CNN,
12 Dec. 2024 With a hosepipe of cash from one of the world’s most crucial resources—hydrocarbons—the country has plowed tens of billions into foreign assets, some during the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic while Wall Street was reeling.—
Byvivienne Walt,
Fortune,
1 Aug. 2023 A few feet away in the grass were a couple of plastic jerricans, a length of hosepipe sticking out of one of them.—
Colin Barrett,
The New Yorker,
6 Dec. 2021 The boats are as close to the Angolan side of the river as can be, tethered to Congo by 50-foot ropes and pale hosepipes that pump air to the divers.—
Tom Wilson,
Slate Magazine,
24 Apr. 2017