How to Use fire hose in a Sentence

fire hose

noun
  • Aykroyd is this genius that’s like filtering a fire hose through a straw.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 9 Sep. 2024
  • In the bedlam, a crew member twice ran right by a 50-foot fire hose.
    — Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The fire hose of demand could be a good thing, at least for 2024.
    — Nicole Sperling, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Video from the scene shows water shooting out from at least six punctures in the fire hose.
    — Steven Rosenbaum, CBS News, 5 Dec. 2025
  • But the fire hose of money is unlikely to stop anytime soon.
    — Dave Smith, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Months later, a Cruise AV ran over a fire hose that was in use.
    — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Entering an active fire scene, then parking with one of its tires on top of a fire hose.
    — Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
  • Think of it as a fire hose that aims at – then drenches – a particular region.
    — Jennifer Gray, CNN, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Andrew set the ladder back up, got the motor running and towed the fire hose back up onto the roof of the house.
    — Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Nintendo Switch 2 leaks are being unleashed with the force of a fire hose at this point.
    — Jason Evangelho, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
  • If consistent love is a steady drip, modern marketing is a sporadic fire hose.
    — Drew Gerber, Forbes.com, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Their lifeline of a fire hose ran out, but sporadic calls for help beckoned above the car-alarm cacophony.
    — Dan Barry, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2023
  • His mind is a fire hose of ambition and enterprising passion.
    — James Estrin Joshua Barone, New York Times, 4 June 2024
  • Those are typical from rookies as the fire hose of installation piles up over the summer.
    — Paul Dehner Jr., The Athletic, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Both storms will be fueled by atmospheric rivers, plumes of tropical moisture that can bring a fire hose of rain.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Turning on the programming fire hose to feed the streaming platforms, in many ways, now haunts Disney.
    — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Toggling between ten simultaneous pod dates is like standing in front of a fire hose of gossip.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2024
  • By midmorning, rescuers began moving a fire hose under the whale’s belly and around his pectoral fins.
    — Jessica Camille Aguirre, New Yorker, 2 May 2026
  • Take solace in the fact that pressures for those at the top will always be like drinking from a fire hose, and sometimes the water will flow faster than others.
    — Paul Walker, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
  • That giant with a siphon that looks like a mini fire hose is rarely spotted on menus in this neck of the woods, as most of the supply gets shipped to Japan where it’s prized.
    — Leslie Kelly, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
  • As with everything on the web, looking up a word opens a fire hose of controversy and misinformation.
    — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Just before evacuating, the actor was outside unwinding his fire hose.
    — Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2024
  • An atmospheric river is a long, narrow region in the atmosphere that can transport moisture thousands of miles, like a fire hose in the sky.
    — Jay Croft, Monica Garrett and Allison Chinchar, CNN, 30 Dec. 2022
  • So all the data is public on Bluesky, all your posts are public, your likes are public, and anyone can build an app that shows all of that, and anyone can look at the fire hose.
    — Nilay Patel, The Verge, 25 Mar. 2024
  • To provide access to the beach, a fire hose was used to break up the sandstone, eventually creating Fletcher Cove.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Publishers who use Google’s ad server and exchange to sell their ad space are able to plug into the fire hose of demand that comes from Google’s ad-buying tools.
    — Patience Haggin, WSJ, 29 Jan. 2023
  • Desalination plants run 24 hours a day, blasting water through membranes at pressures higher than a fire hose, and use huge amounts of energy.
    — Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 23 July 2024
  • The system is part of an atmospheric river – a long, narrow region in the atmosphere that can transport moisture thousands of miles, like a fire hose in the sky.
    — Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Timing and impacts Southeasterly winds will aim a robust tropical fire hose of moisture at Texas.
    — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 18 June 2024
  • As the flames spread, blocking the exits for those crowded in the bunk room below, a member of Boylan’s crew twice ran right by a 50-foot fire hose overhead.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2024

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