How to Use fire hose in a Sentence

fire hose

noun
  • The fire hose of demand could be a good thing, at least for 2024.
    Nicole Sperling, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Months later, a Cruise AV ran over a fire hose that was in use.
    Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 25 Feb. 2023
  • In the bedlam, a crew member twice ran right by a 50-foot fire hose.
    Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 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
  • 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
  • Think of it as a fire hose that aims at – then drenches – a particular region.
    Jennifer Gray, CNN, 9 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • His mind is a fire hose of ambition and enterprising passion.
    James Estrin Joshua Barone, New York Times, 4 June 2024
  • This fire hose of new content keeps her followers — 5.4 million on Instagram alone — well-fed and loyal.
    Julia Moskin, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2023
  • California already has been drenched by a fire hose of moisture from the Pacific Ocean that has led to flooding, landslides and toppled trees.
    Susan Montoya Bryan, ajc, 16 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Tigers and penguins are known for projectile excretion that shoots out a fire hose, whereas wombats poop in cubes, sloths only poop once a month, and some wood-boring clams use poop chimneys to build a home.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 28 Feb. 2023
  • But the fire hose of requests and commitments blasting toward the average knowledge worker in 2024 can’t be appeased so simply.
    Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2024
  • More rarely, the incidents have happened during an emergency response like when a Cruise vehicle ran over a fire hose that was being used at an active fire scene in June.
    Andrea Guzman, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2023
  • But the significance of Forgetting Sarah Marshall goes deeper than Segel’s flailing fire hose.
    Andy Crump, Men's Health, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Timing and impacts Southeasterly winds will aim a robust tropical fire hose of moisture at Texas.
    Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 18 June 2024
  • The challenge of fighting the fire hose of falsity being trained on science has made some scientists cynical about the prospects of victory, Sell acknowledges.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The Food and Drug Administration has been pushing back against Ladapo’s fire hose of misinformation and disinformation for the better part of a year.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2024
  • That means respecting and compensating the debunking work scientists and providers do on social media and training them to make content that’s as likely to go viral as the worst nonsense in the fire hose.
    Keren Landman, Vox, 30 June 2024
  • Crypto firms have been pumping lobbying funds into Washington and campaign donations to politicians as if through a fire hose.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Because social media gives me access to conversations among people of all ages, from every place and subculture, I am exposed to a virtual fire hose of slang.
    Dan Brooks, The Atlantic, 24 June 2024
  • Advertisement The 2024 party was a little scaled back, now that higher interest rates have throttled the fire hose of money that went into venture capital during the last decade.
    Sam Dean, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2024
  • Lately it’s been a fire hose of news: jaw-dropping, history-making — Donald Trump becoming the first ex-president ever indicted — and just plain weird.
    Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023

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