How To Use Dousing In A Sentence
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He would pour wax from one candle holder to another, dousing the wick in wax and putting out the flame, effectively eliminating the usability of that candle anytime in the near future.
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The videos show the students seated on the ground as a UC Davis police officer brandishes a red canister of pepper spray, showing it off for the crowd before dousing the seated students in a heavy, thick mist.
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But when I see cats prowling on my property, I have no qualms about dousing them with water.
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The pub offers an all-night cellar vigil including the use of infra-red cameras, dousing rods, and a meter for measuring electro-magnetic fields for serious enthusiasts.
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With the air reeking of smoke, the firefighters got to work in dousing the flames as the flashing blue light of the fire engine lit the neighbourhood.
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The Secret Service responded, dousing the fire and subduing the man.
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A government lawyer publicly asserts that her case was brought for the purpose of dousing inflamed passions.
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Every community in Nunavut lacks a dependable water supply for dousing fires.
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And in Farnworth, firemen are the latest victims of baying, bottle-throwing youths who objected to them dousing a fire in the area where they congregate and upset residents.
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Koivu added an assist, while Cristobal Huet stopped 29 shots, including 23 over the final 45 minutes in dousing the NHL's most potent offense.
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He took delight in game hunting, dousing himself in good drink and revelry.
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Eleven gallons of beer sprayed out of the burst pipe, dousing the fire as it took hold at the Victorian Ball Inn at Thorpe Hesley, Rotherham, in the early hours of New Year's Eve.
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When they're fresh and fluffy, they come alive with a bit of chutney or a dousing of sambar.
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Yep, you're dousing your environment with goodwill and at-oneness. Wow! The people around you are so lucky.
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Will she move the salt shaker three inches from its starting point after dousing her filthy hand for a tequila shooter?
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Let many aqua also incapability dousing, flood also the incapability drown!
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Bachmann weaves tales of anti-heroines, old drunks and people dousing themselves in gasoline into a strong collection of songs.
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After decent dousing on Splash Mountain, need to go into spin cycle to dry off.
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By analogy, although oxygen does not cause a fire, it is impossible for fire to burn in its absence, so one extinguishes a blaze by dousing it with water or smothering it, to prevent oxygen from reaching it.
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Lay the casualty down as soon as possible to prevent the flames sweeping upwards. Quickly put out the flames by dousing the casualty with water.
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‘About 150 firefighters are working 12-hour shifts and are in the process of beating, making firebreaks and dousing the flames with hoses,’ Gous said.
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Plus, before I packed them, I gave them a good dousing of Emeraude cologne so they'd smell extra flowery.
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The school board has given permission to a group of Northgate High School students to conduct a poll on the idea of dousing the flame, the present symbol of the district, in favor of something that would ignite more passion.
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Despite the ritual dousing with perfume and mouthwash, the girl still smelled faintly of cigarette smoke.
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Bybee was questioned on whether his office gave specific authorization for reported practices such as dousing detainees with water and repetitive noise or loud music to keep prisoners awake.
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White also was captured on camera, certainly deliberately, with Shields next to him at the April 24 Aldo vs. Faber pay-per-view, not exactly dousing the talk that Shields might jump to the UFC.
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Dousing myself in the pool offered about the same amount of refreshment as a melted ice-cream cone.
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But when I see cats prowling on my property, I have no qualms about dousing them with water.
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This could be as simple for a player as dousing his face with a stream from a water bottle or dunking his body in a huge tub.
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He sprung into action, grabbing the lab's fire blanket and dousing the flames that were playing across the workbench.
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Current tradition requires dousing the beast in a liberal amount of whisky while accompanying it with an even larger measure.
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We witnessed firefighters kind of dousing the remaining flames and smoke of that tractor-trailer.
CNN Transcript Jul 27, 2007
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The solo Canvey fire crew on duty yesterday first sprang into action at 4pm, dousing a rubbish fire at the side of the road in Fifth Avenue.
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Stylists at Cartoon Cuts wash as well as cut their customers' hair, dousing the suds with hoses that emanate from the trunks of green fiberglass elephants.
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Dousing her face and neck, she gazed for a fleeting moment into the water, her thoughts momentarily blank.
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My gammon steak was very thick and moist and the large cut chips were not soggy (despite a good dousing in the vinegar).
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I hate super-sweet things (when I make lemon curd, I leave out half the sugar), but my gentleman companion declared it “perfect” après-dousing.
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The video, which was taped over the last two years, features scenes of two young men with shaved heads dousing unsuspecting vagrants and drug addicts with a liquid.
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The 'Black Shirts' of Guantanamo routinely terrorize prisoners, breaking bones, gouging eyes, squeezing testicles, and 'dousing' them with chemicals.
WHITE NOISE INSANITY
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According to the latest models, New York neighborhoods that currently flood every 100 or so years - victims of what is known as the 100-year storm, in climatologist-speak - can expect to experience this kind of dousing as frequently as every four years by 2080, in a worst-case scenario.
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