fire hydrant

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Recent Examples of fire hydrant When firefighters arrived on the scene, two homes were already engulfed in flames, with attempts to battle them back slowed by a broken fire hydrant. Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 11 Apr. 2025 Alijah was allegedly in a Tesla Cybertruck and collided with a fire hydrant before slamming into a tree. Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 25 Apr. 2025 What difference would a full reservoir have made for firefighters dealing with low water pressure in fire hydrants? Shelby Grad, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2025 Six businesses were destroyed Thursday as a massive fire tore through a row of Bronx stores — and the FDNY’s response was hampered by a brazen motorist who parked his car by a nearby fire hydrant, officials said. Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 13 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for fire hydrant
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fire hydrant
Noun
  • The worst placard abusers are the police, who park on sidewalks, in front of hydrants, and in traffic lanes, bus lanes, and bike lanes.
    Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
  • Later in the video, Arenas is seen trying to get up after lying face down in the street in a few inches of water while the hydrant continued to spray.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Pay attention to where the kitchen and bathrooms are, too—water supply and waste pipes for the second floor are often found in walls on the first floor, below sinks, tubs, or showers.
    Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 25 May 2023
  • Cathcart is referring to the plumbing that the vanity's sink and faucet connect to—the water lines and waste pipe connect to the underside of the sink via the bendy P-trap pipe.
    Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Apr. 2023
Noun
  • In January, hundreds of residents were evacuated from the Patrick Sullivan Senior Apartments on the Near West Side due to a burst pipe, which resulted in flooding and the loss of heat and hot water.
    Lizzie Kane, Chicago Tribune, 21 May 2025
  • This is typical in areas that have hard water and is caused by the minerals in the water that flows through your pipes, according to Mr. Rooter Plumbing.
    Cody Godwin, USA Today, 18 May 2025
Noun
  • The team is taking this tack because Perseverance is getting low on unsealed tubes and still has a lot of intriguing ground to cover.
    Mike Wall, Space.com, 21 May 2025
  • The internet is already a part of us, inside of us; and maybe what remains for the digital novelist is to get outside, to gather up the whole snarled mess of tubes and plunk it down on an examination table.
    Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • The front end features a new bumper with an integrated splitter, designed at the customer’s request to increase downforce, accelerating airflow to the inner radiator ducts.
    Mark Ewing, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
  • In addition, those homes are connected to a duct system that is inadequate for the HVAC system.
    Brynn Cooksey, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • However, today’s tech leaders’ political positions are a mixed bag.
    Tim Bajarin, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
  • The four European leaders jointly visited Kyiv last week and have been calling for Trump to back new sanctions on Russia.
    Pavel Polityuk, USA Today, 20 May 2025
Noun
  • LLMs and machine learning are merely the conduit through which benefits to the customer are delivered.
    Justin Warren, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
  • His strained, sandpaper-coarse timbre served as an ideal conduit for songs concerned with boisterous revelries, shady agreements, licentious intentions and musical pleasures.
    Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 25 May 2025
Noun
  • The newest member of the new-look Red Sox is an aggressive, fireplug of a player, which is why Cora keeps comparing him to the sainted Dustin Pedroia.
    Steve Buckley, The Athletic, 15 Feb. 2025
  • At 41 inches tall and 161 pounds per side, this fireplug of a speaker delivers impressive dynamic range at realistic (live music) levels and will admirably fill all but the most gigantic spaces with detailed yet unfatiguing sound.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 26 Mar. 2025

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“Fire hydrant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fire%20hydrant. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.

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