Sentence examples for powerful hose from inspiring English sources

He and other staff members used a powerful hose to combat the blaze in nearby buildings but withdrew when the army entered the area.

Feed the plant with seaweed to encourage strong healthy growth, and if necessary spray the aphids with a powerful hose to knock them off, or a weak solution of soapy water.

Some time later I'm shown into a bath, where a woman dressed in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest whites directs a powerful hose at my body.

Use a powerful hose and heavy-duty soap with a scrub.

Birmingham police then used clubs, dogs, and powerful hoses to attack peaceful civil rights protesters.

The demonstrations, early that year, overwhelmed the city, and the news coverage, complete with televised images of black children being arrested or soaked and bowled over by law enforcement officers wielding powerful fire hoses, helped rally much of the American public to the side of the civil rights movement.

A swirl of protests, touched off by weeks of racial strife in Birmingham, Alabama, where police dogs had torn at the flesh of protesters and powerful fire hoses had been trained on children, now engulfed much of the country.

And how when black people asked to do these things, the white police officers sprayed them with powerful fire hoses, made dogs attack them and put them in jail.

The searing heartbreaking pictures of children being battered and tossed about by powerful fire hoses and attacked by police dogs appeared on front pages around the country and world and helped turned the tide of public opinion in support of Dr. King's local and the national civil rights movement's fight for justice. .

He grabbed a hose so powerful it usually took four men to control, and he aimed it at the flames that had begun to make the ammunition locker smolder.

As the planes struck, Mr. Clark, despite a broken collarbone, raced into the mayhem and manned a fire hose, one so powerful it usually took four men to control it, to douse flames headed for an ammunition locker, which would have exploded and split the ship.