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The phrase "hose away" is not standard or commonly used in written English
It may be intended to mean washing or cleaning something with a hose, but it lacks clarity and context. Example: "After the party, we decided to hose away the spilled drinks from the patio."
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First, they hose away the dust on the ceilings to check for loose rocks.
Around them beetled rubbish trucks and council workers were trying to hose away the detritus of the morning's mayhem.
Further down the river, amid a thicket of tall yellow grass, a group of workers in blue boiler suits try to hose away a spill from a few months earlier.
As firemen hose away the last human remains, he reaches down and picks up a nose, the last thing he needs to complete a body, made up entirely of discarded parts of bombing victims, that he has been assembling in secret.
Massa knocked over a mechanic and tore the refuelling hose away from the equipment, which stayed clamped to the side of the car, before he pulled over at the end of the pit lane.
The bank is still trying to hose away the gore of the Libor scandal that happened on Diamond's watch, which cost it about $440 million in fines and immeasurable reputational damage last year.
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Pools of blood were hosed away as quickly as they formed.
The gray dust that coated the sidewalks has been swept and hosed away.
He hosed away the blood in the garage, found the spent rifle shells and threw them away.
Around the corner from Buttylicious, Paul Gibbons was grimly hosing away sewage from his factory near the Rochdale canal on Sunday morning.
Certainly many animal sellers were back plying their trade to willing customers even as the remains of their colleagues and friends were being hosed away.
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