as in pipe
a discharge faucet at which water may be drawn from a water main (as for fighting fires)
The work of the firefighters was made more difficult by the absence of hydrants in the neighborhood.
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Recent Examples of hydrant
Water storage ran out and hydrants went dry.
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David Marston, Denver Post, 5 Mar. 2026
Water hydrants were left depleted during the emergency as well, which officials attribute to the high demand for water.
—City News Service, Daily News, 4 Mar. 2026
Neighbors grabbed shovels and started looking for hydrants as officers went door-to-door evacuating everyone from neighboring homes.
—Mike Sullivan, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2026
Attleboro firefighters had to overcome deep snow, live electrical wires and frozen hydrants to extinguish a two-alarm fire at a home early Wednesday morning.
—Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 25 Feb. 2026
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David Marston, Denver Post, 5 Mar. 2026
Water hydrants were left depleted during the emergency as well, which officials attribute to the high demand for water.
—City News Service, Daily News, 4 Mar. 2026
Neighbors grabbed shovels and started looking for hydrants as officers went door-to-door evacuating everyone from neighboring homes.
—Mike Sullivan, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2026
Attleboro firefighters had to overcome deep snow, live electrical wires and frozen hydrants to extinguish a two-alarm fire at a home early Wednesday morning.
—Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 25 Feb. 2026
See All Example Sentences for hydrant
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hydrant
Noun
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Then, in January, a pipe burst during the extreme cold, which caused water to rain down inside the church as repairs were underway.—
Ryan Hughes,
CBS News,
10 Apr. 2026
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Welsh had been researching chloride transport long before the gene was discovered, and some of those early results suggested the problem may have been in a channel, which is like a little pipe through a cell membrane.—
Courtney Crowder,
USA Today,
10 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The city’s been the leader in that area for almost a year.—
Desiree Mathurin
April 8,
Charlotte Observer,
8 Apr. 2026
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The Hickman Mills School District is currently about $14 million in debt, a figure which district leaders attribute partly to financial mismanagement and partly to recent changes to the Jackson County property tax assessment cycle.—
Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
8 Apr. 2026
Noun
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This photo was taken as the Artemis II crew flew over the terminator, the dividing line between light and darkness on the moon.—
Mark Osborne,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2026
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Yet, in between the lines stitching together the box score, the Knicks’ one-two punch has been growing closer, through the adversity that has been the 2025-26 NBA season.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
10 Apr. 2026
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“Hydrant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hydrant. Accessed 13 Apr. 2026.
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