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- noun Plural form of
hosepipe .
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Examples
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Amnesty says it has documented various examples of torture in Iraqi prisons in recent years, including rape, the threat of rape, beatings with cables and hosepipes and electric shocks.
Amnesty Accuses Iraq of Operating Secret Prisons to Torture Detainees 2011
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Already they are living with restrictions on the use of hosepipes and the filling of swimming pools.
Archive 2008-05-01 Jan 2008
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Paint-spraying equipment, vacuums and hosepipes were coiled along the brick walls.
Deadly Intent Lynda La Plante 2008
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Paint-spraying equipment, vacuums and hosepipes were coiled along the brick walls.
Deadly Intent Lynda La Plante 2008
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Paint-spraying equipment, vacuums and hosepipes were coiled along the brick walls.
Deadly Intent Lynda La Plante 2008
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Already they are living with restrictions on the use of hosepipes and the filling of swimming pools.
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They would be more likely to use the hosepipes to syphon the water off into the drains!
A very wet drought Karyn Romeis 2007
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A Chinese farmer has made his own solar-powered water heater out of beer bottles and hosepipes.
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I had a mental image of people dashing out in their wellies to stand in an inch of water and water their gardens with hosepipes.
A very wet drought Karyn Romeis 2007
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When he was some distance away from where we were, and with our curiosity having been satisfied that the noise we had heard had to do with some exclusive white activity to which we would not be admitted, we rushed home, hoping that my uncle would find us hard at work, hosepipes in hand, which, to our relief, he did.
ANC Today 2005
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