HOSE Definition & Usage Examples

• Detainees were hosed down while shackled naked, and placed in rooms with temperatures as low as 59 degrees Fahrenheit.

  Inside the CIA’s Sadistic Dungeon

  | Tim Mak

  | December 9, 2014

  | THE DAILY BEAST

• As the paddlers have the sweat hosed off of them, they are either elated or dejected with the timing results.

  Bros Love Dragon Boats

  | Daniel Genis

  | August 10, 2014

  | THE DAILY BEAST

• A YouTube video uploaded Sunday shows the man being hosed down with water by firefighters who had been waiting nearby.

  Suicidal Anti-war Protest Shocks Japan as It Rethinks Pacifist Constitution

  | Angela Erika Kubo, Jake Adelstein

  | June 30, 2014

  | THE DAILY BEAST

• Some of us even had on our rain coats because we knew that we were going to be hosed down by the water hoses.

  How the Children of Birmingham Changed the Civil-Rights Movement

  | Lottie L. Joiner

  | May 2, 2013

  | THE DAILY BEAST

• My freshman fall, I applied to the creative writing program and was promptly hosed.

  Whatever Happened to ‘Prison Break’ Hunk Wentworth Miller?

  | Ramin Setoodeh

  | March 6, 2013

  | THE DAILY BEAST

• I stood before him, ashamed yet glad, hosed and doubleted like a boy, in the Summer Pavilion.

  Joan of the Sword Hand

  | S(amuel) R(utherford) Crockett

• Atomic lamps, mounted on hundred-story buildings hosed and squirted the happy mob with blue-white glare.

  The Syndic

  | C.M. Kornbluth

• His yellow-hosed legs went like the tune of a May game, and he screwed and twisted his scarlet-jerkined body in time with them.

  Devil Stories

  | Various

• The newly-hosed streets are shining in the sunlight as though paved with "patines of bright gold."

  Modern Essays

  | John Macy

• A stream of water hosed into the tube would have worked the same way.

  Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet

  | Harold Leland Goodwin

HOSE Definition & Usage Examples

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