How do you use the word "hose" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "hose": He was watering his garden with a hose. He played a hose on the burning hotel.

Hose

/həʊz/

Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA flexible tube conveying water or other fluid.

nounA stocking-like garment worn on the legs; pantyhose, women's tights.

Sentence Examples

He was watering his garden with a hose.

He played a hose on the burning hotel.

CEFR Practice Quiz

The gardener used a long green ____ to water the flowers.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The gardener used a long ____ to water the thirsty plants in the back of the yard.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English hose (“leggings, hose”), from Old English hose, hosa (“hose, leggings”), from Proto-West Germanic *hosā, from Proto-Germanic *husǭ (“coverings, leggings, trousers”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover”). Cognate with West Frisian hoas (“hose”), Dutch hoos (“stocking, water-hose”), German Hose (“trousers”); also, Tocharian A kać (“skin”), Russian кишка́ (kišká, “gut”), Ancient Greek κύστις (kústis, “bladder”), Sanskrit कोष्ठ (koṣṭha, “intestine”). More at sky. The clothing senses were the original meaning, from which is derived the sense of a tube for fluids.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Theſe men were bound in their coates, their hoſen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were caſt into the midſt of the burning fierie furnace." — 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Daniel 3:21:

"His youthful hoſe, vvell ſaved, a vvorld too vvide / For his ſhrunk ſhank, […]" — c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:

"[T]wenty yeomen, two and two, / In hosen black, and jerkins blue, / With falcons broider'd on each breast, / Attended on their lord's behest." — 1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “Canto First. The Castle.”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, →OCLC, stanza VIII, page 30:

"Only days before the garden opens, the concrete is hosed down with a high-pressure jet and scrubbed." — 1995, Vivian Russell, Monet's Garden: Through the Seasons at Giverny, →ISBN, page 83:

"His guns hosed down the vessel's decks, sweeping them clear of sailors, blowing holes in the bulkheads, and smashing gun positions." — 2003, John R. Bruning, Jungle ace, Brassey's, →ISBN, page 136:

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