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Recent Examples of fire hydrantAbout 20 seconds later, the fleeing vehicle lost control at the intersection of East 21st Street and 12th Avenue and slammed into the fire hydrant, the footage showed.—Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 12 June 2025 One, in a no-standing zone, blocked the fire hydrant — a Mercedes-Benz GLE 5.—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 11 June 2025 Someone had opened a fire hydrant, which sprayed the street continuously as medics and police worked.—Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2025 The Cybertruck careened instead into a fire hydrant, then a tree, before bursting into flames.—Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for fire hydrant
Firefighters were able to use a direct water supply from hydrants adjacent to I-91, officials said.
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Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
8 July 2025
Details of hydrant problem Frost said the contractors had been improperly operating hydrants and underground valves, disrupting the hydrants’ normal functions.
Pay attention to where the kitchen and bathrooms are, too—water supply and waste pipes for the second floor are often found in walls on the first floor, below sinks, tubs, or showers.
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Kevin Cortez,
Popular Mechanics,
25 May 2023
Cathcart is referring to the plumbing that the vanity's sink and faucet connect to—the water lines and waste pipe connect to the underside of the sink via the bendy P-trap pipe.
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Kristina McGuirk,
Better Homes & Gardens,
25 Apr. 2023
Manyo Club pipes pure onsen water from a nearby spring into over five indoor and outdoor pools.
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Kim Kay,
Travel + Leisure,
20 July 2025
The total cost of the project to separate sewage from stormwater pipes and to store waste totals $170 million, and the last of the work is projected to be finished around 2040.
To prevent this, the engine's hydrogen fuel runs through a heat exchanger to chill a liquid helium coolant that flows through a complex network of small tubes in the air inlet.
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New Atlas,
New Atlas,
19 July 2025
The company, owned by DuPont and based in Atlanta, makes tubes, catheters, medical balloons, packaging and more.
Gallardo was a shark on Shark Tank México and is such a part of the fabric in town that Hollywood increasingly sees her as a conduit to the Latino community.
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Mickey Rapkin,
HollywoodReporter,
28 July 2025
Already a significant conduit in global trade, the Panama Canal plays a major role in facilitating container shipping flow into the U.S.
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