The hoses were all spouting water to wet the decks; every eye was turned upon the enemy.
Large parties of bluejackets led by lieutenants were sent down to pass coal from the bunkers; in the engine-rooms the water was spouting from half a dozen hoses upon the bearings.
Wherever the shells struck they appeared to cause conflagrations, and this, though the hoses were spouting water and the decks drowned before the action began.
The hoses sent streams of lake water splashing against the now-smoldering and smoking bulkheads.
Then it could be pulled out into the passageway with hooks and the hoses could play upon it with full force.
But he clenched his teeth and stayed erect, watching as the crewmen began to drag the blazing table from the galley into the direct play of massed hoses and extinguishers.
Soon the dull red of fire blushes through the smoke, and a rush of bluejackets and marines with fire-hoses spouting white streams of water engages this dread enemy and succeeds in subduing it.
Anyway it's kerosene or oil and there are long hoses with wide nozzles at the end.
A dozen black and sootylooking tanktrucks had come up and from them, like the arms of a squid, thick hoses lazily uncoiled.
The hoses were fixed up and tested, while men who were not willing to submit even the worst clothes they had to the combined effect of pease-meal and water stripped until they were clad only in the sparsest of underwear.
The barricades, however, were invulnerable, and the hoses could not be withstood.
Promptly hoses were coupled up, pumping volumes of petrol into U99's tanks.
His rode was reed, his eyen greye as goos; With Powles window corven on his shoos, In hoses rede he wente fetisly.
And more-over, the wrecched swollen membres that they shewe thurgh the degysinge, in departinge of hir hoses in whyt and reed, semeth that half hir shameful privee membres weren flayn.
There were five hoses going within the hour, while another was all the while directing a powerful stream through the gap forward.
For an hour the gallant workers struggled to subdue the blaze by throwing water from a couple ofhoses into the hold.
By then, too, Joe and his friends had contrived to get three hosesgoing through the hatchway, though their efforts seemed to be little rewarded.
Instead of water, the hoses could spit fire like a flamethrower.
The apparatus was a marble box with rows of knobs and gauges and a pair of rubber hoses on the top.
These hoses extend from the receiving tank to the grain, which, when the air has been exhausted to five or six pounds to the square inch, flies up the tubes into the tank.
The forms on the decks below also commenced to stir, whistles sounded, and soon hoses and brooms were busy cleaning the horse-boxes.
They stripped themselves of their shore kit, and withhoses and brooms scrubbed decks for hour after hour.
They thrashed the shadows with their beams, probing each inch of water--clearing their way even as a tankhoses machine-gun bullets before its clumsy body.
Some of them, however, held short hoses in their hands, hoses that sprouted from tight brass coils strapped to their broad shoulders.
Behind them, and corresponding to heavy infantry, were ranged some twenty thousand blue-plumed hoplites, eagerly fingering the brazen hoses of their death dealing portable retortii.
Hoses were coupled up, water poured over boats hanging in the davits, in case of fire caused by the explosion of a hostile shell.
Ammunition had been served up, fire hoses rigged, deck fittings removed, and every other possible precaution taken to safeguard the frail craft in the impending action.
Morning after morning the hoses had to be connected up and hot water played upon the muzzles of the guns in order to remove the ice from the bore.
Most of it was filtered through a chemical plant in the valley to make fresh water, but it was salt water that was available to the fire hoses for the needed quantity and pressure.
The emergency power supply and the fire hoses were only normal safety precautions, but now, in the hands of the Traitor, they became deadly weapons.
Mr Hose lived here show him in and say I do Just at that moment a man rushed in father he said dont you know me, and he flung himself into Mr Hoses arms my son my son where have you been all these long years tell me all about it.
The watch on deck trail hoses and deck-scrubbers from the racks and set about preparations for washing down, bent earnestly on their standard rites though the heavens fall!
Steam-pumps on her fore-deck were forcing a sickly mixture of liquid batter through hoses to a barge alongside, and the overpowering stench of the mess blew down to us and set eyes and noses quickening with instant nausea.
Gladly we handed the hoses to them and went to the palace for a much needed rest.
Before the Quabos had reached us we had rigged six fire-hoses and had cut through forty or fifty more water-lines.
The Quabos in front, supplied with slack in their hoses by those behind, leaped at us with incredible agility.
We parried and thrust with the flaming hoses in an equally desperate effort to prevent it.
As we went I prayed that all the Quabos had centered their attention on the palace and left their vulnerable water-hoses unguarded.
At once we set to work on the scores ofhoses that quivered over the floor with each move of the distant monsters.
They marched in ranks about twenty yards apart, each rank helping the one in front to carry the cumbersome water-hoses which trailed back to the central water supply in the tunnel.
My whole body was a mass of redness; in a few hours the red would turn to purple and black, where the hoses of the expediters had caressed me.
Hoses connected it with the base of the guided-missile bomb; and a knot of men were feverishly in action around it, some clawing desperately at the fittings of the bomb, some returning the skirmish fire of the expediters.
But in my case, since I face considerable pressures at the bottom of the sea, I needed to enclose my head in a copper sphere, like those found on standard diving suits, and the two hoses for inhalation and exhalation now feed to that sphere.
Let us follow thesehoses to the river bank and see whether there is anything doing.
They did so, and, finding that the hoses entered the water at a point where a patch or two of short scrubby bushes gave cover against chance watchers, they passed on and struck the bank again a hundred yards farther on.
By the time the officer commanding the troops had awakened to the situation, the hoses had been completely ruined, and the fighting of the flames delayed until fresh ones could be brought to the spot.
But though they were expeditious in arriving, the firemen were not equally expeditious in getting their hoses effectually trained upon the building.
The ends of both hoses must be decontaminated with a 5 percent chlorine solution before connecting them together.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hoses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
