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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Yet again, though, the vast state is bracing for the wet blast of another atmospheric river – a long, narrow moisture band that carries saturated air thousands of miles, then discharges it like a fire hose.
  — Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN, 19 Mar. 2023
• Last year, shirts featuring a pink fire hose in the shape of a ribbon supporting her fight could be seen being worn by firefighters at multiple local departments and were put up for sale to the community.
  — Erik S. Hanley, Journal Sentinel, 20 Jan. 2023
• Not only has there been a constant fire hose of vitriol aimed squarely at her family—generally by the right for…fairly winning an election?—but Ashley herself has been a direct target.
  — Kayla Webley Adler, ELLE, 28 Mar. 2023
• Eager to support Xi’s ambitions, or perhaps just as eager to take advantage of a loosening of restrictions on the purchase of foreign assets, Chinese investors quickly opened a fire hose of money on the game.
  — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
• In the lead-up to the debt ceiling negotiations, Vought also provided a fire hose of advice to House Republicans on how to extract spending cuts and other concessions in exchange for their support.
  — John Wagner, Washington Post, 7 June 2023
• An atmospheric river is like a fire hose that carries saturated air from the tropics to higher latitudes, dumping relentless rain or snow.
  — Taylor Romine, CNN, 22 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 2 Aug 2024