How To Use Drench In A Sentence
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He also has a deft touch with desserts: The baklava and kadayif are subtle, less sweet and honey-drenched than most.
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My hair was matted and wild -- my limbs soiled with salt ooze; while at sea, I had thrown off those of my garments that encumbered me, and the rain drenched the thin summer-clothing I had retained -- my feet were bare, and the stunted reeds and broken shells made them bleed -- the while, I hurried to and fro, now looking earnestly on some distant rock which, islanded in the sands, bore for a moment a deceptive appearance -- now with flashing eyes reproaching the murderous ocean for its unutterable cruelty.
III.9
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The landing zone had been drenched by days of rain.
The Sun
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She agreed cheerfully, turning her face up towards the rain, letting the heavy droplets splatter against her drenched face and hair.
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Her face is drenched in sweat, the heat is not to be borne.
A MEANS TO EVIL
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They had been driving through rain-drenched jungle for the last twenty minutes, and had seen nothing since the apatosaurs crossed the road.
Jurassic Park
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But the uproar passed away in twenty minutes, leaving us all unharmed; excepting Cathy, who got thoroughly drenched for her obstinacy in refusing to take shelter, and standing bonnetless and shawlless to catch as much water as she could with her hair and clothes.
Wuthering Heights
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His face blanched as he looked at Sharpe's blood-drenched uniform.
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Taboula, a parsley, tomato, onion and burghul - or cracked wheat - salad was drenched in the most sickening oil.
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She had a suitcase in her hand, and was drenched.
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Sometimes she would emerge from her trailer drenched in sweat.
Times, Sunday Times
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To escape a drenching, I sheltered in a clump of trees.
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The U.S. soldiers, dressed in Kevlar vests and desert tan camouflage, were drenched with sweat.
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To stand bedrenched with blood; all wounded with darts was I.
Elene; Judith; Athelstan, or the Fight at Brunanburh; Byrhtnoth, or the Fight at Maldon; and the Dream of the Rood Anglo-Saxon Poems
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All the while unbelievers laugh; men of weak faith are shaken; faith is uncertain; souls are drenched in ignorance, because adulterators of the word imitate the truth.
NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
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The squall that had blown in just as we left the mainland was now peeling spray off the whitecaps, and I was drenched.
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We all know the agony of returning to a sun-drenched car on a scorcher.
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Unless it’s drenched in cumquat brandy, of course.
Cheeseburger Gothic » Ladies Lounge
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Even after thirty years living in the country, I fear I am not a proper countryman. I don't farm for a living or go tramping across drenched fields, gun in hand.
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Foie gras du canard and little spicy sweet peppers filled with herby cheese and drenched in olive oil were her choice of appetizers.
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Clouds have rolled on in, hiding the sun, and the insects slowly head for shelter under the leaves before the rain starts to fall and drenches them.
Country diary: East Yorkshire
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Palm-drenched Koh Samui, Thailand's third largest island, boasts the country's only LGBT diving organization. coordinates trips in the calm southern Gulf of Thailand around neighboring Koh Tao ( "Turtle Island") and north to famed Sail Rock, where schools of batfish and giant grouper patrol the 40-foot vertical passage through its granite core and plankton-feeding whale sharks are often sighted.
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He was already drenched in sweat.
Times, Sunday Times
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The landing zone had been drenched by days of rain.
The Sun
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Heavy rains extended south to the Illawarra escarpment west of Wollongong, an area accustomed to drenchings from east coast lows.
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At times the fire on both sides was nearly quenched by the showers, and the bedrenched combatants could do little but gaze at each other through a gray veil of mist and rain.
Montcalm and Wolfe
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His windscreen was drenched in flying oil.
FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
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He sat on the terrace of his sun-drenched villa in the South of France.
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More than six inches of rain has drenched an already soggy Los Angeles this holiday weekend.
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His already dirtied clothes were drenched in the sludge.
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At another - possibly on the same night - it might be minuscule portions of conch ceviche on a bed of lime and chilli, drenched in aged balsamic and served in a trumpet fashioned from the re-frozen meltwaters of Arctic glaciers.
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She became conscious that the long grass was drenched and her shoes and stockings wet through; there was light enough to see in that grass the stars of jonquil, grape hyacinth and the pale cast-out tulips; there would be polyanthus, too, bluebells and cowslips — a few.
Flowering Wilderness
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Winds of 120 mph and drenching rain tore off rooftops, hurled debris through the air and sent huge waves crashing into buildings.
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Extra barkeepers had been engaged, and the drinkers jammed six deep before every drink - drenched and unwiped bar.
Chapter 14
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Across the back of the stage stretches a cyclorama, drenched in the hues of a changing sky Paul Keogan's lighting.
Yerma – review
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By all accounts the ancients experienced themselves as living within an ensouled world - one thoroughly drenched in perceptions of goodness and value.
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His posters are drenched with colour, most typically of girls done up in an Art Nouveau-style, featuring organic, flowing plant forms.
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The guitar drenched with wah-wah here does not sound as, in so many cases, the refuge of a band running out of ideas but a perfect addition to an already memorable song.
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Tessa was drenched completely; Clarissa exclaimed in horror at her sopping dark locks and little pinafore that was dripping on the floor.
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Moshing down the front, crushed against the stage in a sweat-drenched T-shirt is all part of the gig experience.
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Days are drenched in the strong scent of cigarette smoke, all-purpose soap, cow manure, eucalyptus leaf, espresso coffee, and the bouquet of our toil and sweat.
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Thirdly, and to conclude, as our worthy preacher says, beware of the pottle-pot — it has drenched the judgment of wiser men than you.
The Abbot
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A rich tan is unmistakably the hottest summer trend, yet we all know the dangers of toasting ourselves silly to get that sun-drenched look.
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Behind her, aides were struggling up drenched with sweat.
Times, Sunday Times
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Key TMS moments during 1981's big Headingley turnaround included a lengthy and entirely straight discussion of the correct way to address a bishop in written correspondence "The Most Reverend", a saliva-drenched interlude of almost silent on-air cake-munching and a bit where Fred Trueman's musings on Graham Dilley are accompanied by a loud and persistent "ching! ching!" noise, which proves to be Trueman lighting his pipe.
My Beef with England: if only we had an Ian Botham now | Barney Ronay
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With the moon drenching the valley in her light, we sat on the sandy shores and watched the dogs go berserk in what must have been their interpretation of canine heaven on earth.
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The faux fur was drenched in water and the cheap dye bled on Becca's hands.
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He glides the details of passing time over the page while fixing the reader's eyes on the daily plane engine failures, empty suitcase encounters and shirt-drenching negotiations.
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When the breathing begins to be loud, relief is afforded in some cases by giving a drench composed of 2 drams of fluid extract of jaborandi in half a pint of water.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
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Multi-ethnic, multicultural Brazilians, addicted to tolerance but most of the time drenched in complacency, preferred to believe -- and joke about -- the eternal promise of "the country of the future" (as novelist Stefan Zweig coined it over 70 years ago).
Pepe Escobar: Is Brazil the New United States?
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There's no place on earth quite like this handful of sun-drenched, mid-Pacific islands.
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The rain drenched their distinctive purple uniforms, but that didn't dampen the spirits of the shell-suit Samaritans.
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Perhaps a researcher can also shield herself from sorrow by attempting to conduct objective value-free research on subjective emotion-drenched issues.
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She narrowly escaped getting drenched by a couple of sprinklers.
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Sales of sandals, swimwear and ice cream have fallen and we're stuffing ourselves with comfort food to warm up after getting drenched.
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We were drenched, cold, and in need of consolation.
Christianity Today
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(Even the hypnotizing black mammoth would lumber off on hearing those words, not wishing to be hit by the unpleasant drenching from a big bowl of water which would come next).
Cruelty to Animals
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Still, a lively, big-hearted tale, drenched in gritty working-class ambience.
Traveler by Ron McLarty: Book summary
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Reading about a "daylily bud and petal salad" preceding a "stinging nettle and sea spinach soup" is almost enough to make one yearn for a wedge of iceberg lettuce drenched in Thousand Island dressing.
Gastronomy
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My feet hurt, I was drenched in sweat and I needed a pee like nobody's business.
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Superimposing the memory of an African American icon on a moment drenched in futurological significance is intriguing.
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From the moment they wake up to the time they go to bed they are drenched in sweat.
The Sun
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The designer dress bought in panic was drenched in sweat.
Times, Sunday Times
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The refinery, strewn with asbestos and drenched in oil, was an ecological disaster.
Times, Sunday Times
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This stuff stinks like a goat's armpit drenched in your granny's cologne, and the most you feel is your heart pounding like you had partaken of some honking poppers, accompanied by a pounding headache.
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Not that I'm exactly drenching myself in the stuff, but, you know.
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Alone in my room, I collapsed on my bed like a temperamental teenager and proceeded to drench my pillow with tears.
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The next best is a classic genoise, which even in the most skilled hands is a little dryish, which is why it's often drenched (happily) in rum.
Why Fancy Cakes Can Taste So Crummy
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The song was politicised, reflexive and drenched in affectivity.
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I don't have time to lollop downstairs, drenched, and whip up some stink-fre towels.
Blog: Late October Morning
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Duane Schuler's lighting designs are important, as "Fidelio" is an opera of contrasts between the darkness of the dungeon, the daylight of the end of Act I when the prisoners are allowed out of their cells and the sun-drenched finale, when the prisoners are liberated and, in this production, the villain, Pizzaro, apparently hanged.
Mirror-Image Operas Enjoy Identical Good Results
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It's a great choice for a hard workout - and another bonus is that it does not feel drenched in sweat.
The Sun
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Unmindful of the rain and the stink, several drove down, specially to catch the sight of rain lashing the lake, and yes, get themselves drenched to the skin.
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The waves washed against the cars and drenched those on the top.
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I pushed some sheep out of the way to get a better view and almost drenched myself in the spray of freezing-cold water in the process.
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He recalled: 'We got drenched that day.
The Sun
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We waded ashore coughing up salt water and drenched to the skin.
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“An erne methought came in,” she says, “and swept adown the hall, and drenched me and all of us with blood, and ill shall that betoken, for methought it was the double of King Atli.”
The Story of the Volsungs
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I don't admire the Shaolin and don't agree with their ways, but I respect a sword drenched with warm blood.
LogiPundit
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For Peckinpah, the film was a stark departure from his blood-drenched action westerns.
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Throughout his papacy. Pope Pius XII was almost universally, regarded as a saintly man, a scholar, a man of peace, a tower of strength, and a compassionate defender and protector of all victims of the war and genocide that had drenched Europe in blood.
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He was nauseated, short of breath, dizzy and drenched in perspiration.
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A sunny day is a great day, and nothing beckoned one out to a day on the water more than a sun-drenched sky.
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She uses real leaves, seeds, husks and pods, building on their natural form and texture and drenching them in colour.
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Coke comes out of the ovens at more than 1,000 degrees and goes to what's called a "quench tower" to be drenched with thousands of gallons of water.
The Center for Public Integrity: Where regulators failed, citizens took action -- testing their own air
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His face was drenched with sweat.
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Here are largish beachfront hotels, and restaurants serving ubiquitous feta salad or deep-fried calamari drenched in lemon juice, washed down with retsina.
Insiders' guide to Greece
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No breakfast is complete without a large bowl of finely chopped cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, onions and parsley tossed together and drenched in olive oil, a mainstay of the Israeli kitchen.
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The war drenched the country in blood
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The crew is drenched in sweat.
Times, Sunday Times
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More impressive was the sun-drenched view from the observation terrace.
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She is naked and drenched in sweat and saliva and mucus, her mouth is open, her face is blotched with purple.
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Britain does itself no favors by complaining about a falling share price and lost dividends while eleven Americans lie dead, thousands of Gulf Coast residents have lost their livelihood, and innumerable wildlife wash up ashore drenched in BP guck.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: BP, Gadhafi, and Britain's Oil Comeuppance
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A smashing final 25 minutes gave the 9,000 attendance plenty to enthuse about at sun-drenched Hyde Park on Sunday.
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Has to have beef tea and sal volatile, and kameela drenches twice a day!
Flashman And The Mountain Of Light
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Marianne Willoughby sat in her sun-drenched parlour, her face pale with shock.
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Along drought followed by a wet October drenched in torrential rains and floods, and then the arrival of cold and snow at the end of the month.
Times, Sunday Times
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Given recognition of poetry as drenched in historicity, how can poets work?
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One contestant wolfed down an animal tripe taco, while another was asked to try to trap a slippery pig drenched in butter.
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The flesh of the trepang has to be drenched in water for a long time prior to cooking, in order to remove a lot of the gelatinous goo, or so I'm told.
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All were drenched in the same joy, in the same colour.
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If they answer ‘incorrectly,’ they get drenched by the bucket of water suspended from a stepladder above them.
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Most importantly, don't ruin your beautiful salad by drenching it in high-calorie dressings and toppings.
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The key is to gently coat each leaf, but not drench it.
Diaphanous Roasted Kale
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This year has been drenched in rain and may turn out to be in the top five wettest years on record in the UK.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was a day of galloping gales, thick mists, columns of rain marching across the hills, drenching the pinewoods and the dreary fields.
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Through the door of another house, a shadow fled across the bare laths of a sun-drenched wall.
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The sweat band wrapped tightly around her forehead was drenched, and sweat soaked through her clothes and covered her face and arms.
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Sunlight drenched us, though more than a third of the sky was black, tumid with rain, intermittently aflicker with electricity.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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Her hair was neither bronze nor gold nor copper, yet seemed to be an alloy of all the precious mines of the turning year -- the vigorous dusky gold of November elms, the rust of dead bracken made living by heavy rains, the color of beechmast drenched with sunlight after frost, and all the layers of glory on the boughs before it fell, when it needed neither sun nor dew to make it glow.
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
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But even yet, he was only a stranger to the boys of the town, and as he went down the street in the drenching rain that filled the syvers to overflowing and rose in a smoke from the calm waters of the bay, they cried "Crotal-coat, crotal-coat," after him.
Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure
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'The root of the common darnel (_lolium_) or dandelion, with saltpeter, make a very cheap and effective sheep-drench.
Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge Extracted From His Letters And Diaries, With Reminiscences Of His Conversation By His Friend Christopher Carr Of The Same College
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Travis mumbled a few words as he passed by the living room and tossed his drenched overshirt in a pile of dirty clothes.
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Soon enough, there was a pot of steaming coffee and a plate of honey-drenched crumpets standing in front of her.
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Wild as the birds in the sun-drenched trees, their children skulked shyly behind the sulky wheels or scuttled for the protection of the woodheap while their parents yarned over cups of tea, swapped tall stories and books, promised to pass on vague messages to Hoopiron Collins or Brumby Waters, and told the fantastic tale of the Pommy jackaroo on Gnarlunga.
The Thorn Birds
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Come on in - you're drenched!
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They were drenched with cold water when holes in the walls of the bathroom facilities unexpectedly began to spurt water when someone switched on the water main.
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he gave it a good drenching
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We were on drenched mattresses and had no food at all.
The Sun
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He was nauseated, short of breath, dizzy and drenched in perspiration.
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Sometimes she would emerge from her trailer drenched in sweat.
Times, Sunday Times
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We managed, however, to escape without any mishap, for the drenching was a boon to our burnt-up skins.
The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales
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Grilled sturgeon is lavishly drenched in black vinegar and eggplant.
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The result was a set of cinematic sickies so drenched in dread and bloodstained bodies that audiences couldn't help but be disturbed.
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Droplets of rain had already fallen, and he quickly ducked into his car to avoid being drenched by the rain.
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Extreme amounts of rain caused by a stagnant, persistent weather pattern have drenched much of the region over the past couple of weeks, said hydrologist Jim Noel of the Ohio River Forecast Center in Wilmington.
Levee blasted along Mississippi River to spare Cairo, Ill.
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The upward pull of a starry cupola or the mesmerizing allure of a sun-drenched atrium are some obvious examples.
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What if your place of work is not a dingy workstation in a block of concrete but a floating sun-drenched five-star hotel heading for Alaska or Bermuda?
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Use of a narrow spectrum drug rather than a combined fluke and worm drench helps reduce the usage of the broad spectrum wormers and slow the onset of anthelmintic resistance.
Chapter 5
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A mural on the restaurant wall depicts three women working together in an idyllic, sun-drenched garden.
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They were drenched to the skin.
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There on the doorstop, drenched and dripping in the darkness, stood a miserably bedraggled Jewish wayfarer.
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On Tuesday, Economics Minister Banri Kaieda had ordered the company to drench with water a pool containing nuclear waste material, after the water level at the pool—used to cool the fuel rods of the fourth of the plant's six reactors—reached zero at one point without Tepco injecting more, according the ministry.
Tokyo Lifts Reins From Its Utility In Crisis
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She uses real leaves, seeds, husks and pods, building on their natural form and texture and drenching them in colour.
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It enjoys hot, dry conditions, but is best planted in a blistering border than containerised on a sun-drenched patio or deck.
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Luck" is set at Santa Anita, the sun-drenched Art Deco racetrack near Los Angeles.
HBO Takes Its Money to the Track
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Come on in - you're drenched!
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None could pierce the future; perhaps none dared to contemplate it: the wild rage of fanaticism and hate, friend grappling with friend, brother with brother, father with son; altars profaned, hearthstones made desolate; the robes of Justice herself bedrenched with murder.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863
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Drenched in sweat, they are prostrated by fatigue, ‘sucking in hot air like bellows and breathless in the suffocating heat’.
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Their goal is to create anguish and countless telephone calls to friends, family and business associates rather than generate some spare time with the family on a sundrenched weekend.
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The Spartans had a way of "drenching" a helot with liquor, then parading him in his drunken antics before the boys of the town to disgust them with dram-drinking.
The Secret of a Happy Home (1896)
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Apply with a brush and blot with a tissue so the mouth is defined and has a little colour but does not look drenched in gloss.
The Sun
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Tuscan snobs will enjoy the savory agnolotti dumplings, stuffed with spinach and ground veal, and a steamy bowl of pici spaghetti, drenched in a buttery mushroom sauce and scented with rosemary and bits of black truffles.
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We were drenched, cold, and in need of consolation.
Christianity Today
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Teachers are in there, drenched in sweat.
Times, Sunday Times
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Scorsese drenches Shutter Island in madness but not in the clichéd ways of overt, distracting symbolism or epilepsy-inducing camerawork and editing.
SHUTTER ISLAND Review – Collider.com
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The current weather report is for, basically, the sky to collapse, typhoons, cataracts and hurricanes, spouting till they have drench'd our steeples, etc.
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The next best is a classic genoise, which even in the most skilled hands is a little dryish, which is why it's often drenched (happily) in rum.
Why Fancy Cakes Can Taste So Crummy
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The formal ceremony was followed by a grand procession, seven miles in length and two hours in duration, through the sun-drenched streets of Moscow to the train station.
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This is wonderful, but you kind of start thinking about moving forward and what the next plans are and how you're going to get there," the trainer said after ducking out of a drenching rain with his perfectly coifed head of gray hair intact.
Kentucky Derby winner Super Saver will run in Preakness
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Water plastered my hair to my red, sweaty face and I ended up looking more like a drenched beach ball than anything else.
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Western parts of Queensland recently got drenched in muchneeded rain following a long drought.
Times, Sunday Times
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Western parts of Queensland recently got drenched in muchneeded rain following a long drought.
Times, Sunday Times
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My droukit sark-sleeve, [3] as ye ken; [drenched chemise]
Robert Burns How To Know Him
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He was drenched in sweat.
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The boy and the dog relish the scamper, but the pedlar fingers his rosary to ward off the threat of a drenching.
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Western parts of Queensland recently got drenched in muchneeded rain following a long drought.
Times, Sunday Times
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Once they have been rootled up to the surface by a wild boar, or the farmer has stopped drenching his field with fertiliser, or Longhorn cattle have trampled down the bracken, they burst into glorious life.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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She was sitting on the closed lid of the toilet bowl, wounds far from being cleaned, clothes sweat-drenched and dirty.
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The designer dress bought in panic was drenched in sweat.
Times, Sunday Times
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He spent more than half an hour after the game warming down on the pitch and came back drenched in sweat.
The Sun
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Do not drench an animal when you can administer the necessary medicine in any other way.
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However welcome a few good showers might be, there is no doubt that getting drenched in a thundershower, is not a pleasurable experience.
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A few floors down, sprinklers came on, drenching everything.
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The story plays out against a gritty, hyperreal New York backdrop that seems to be drenched in a perpetually oppressive, insipid drizzle.
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The trees were drenched with sunlight.
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After his aborted attempt to reach the platform onto which his nephew had climbed, Callahan crawled to the back of the "turtled" boat, where he sat on the upturned outboard, wrapped his arms around the engine's lower unit and held on under an unceasing assault of drenching, slamming waves.
Chron.com Chronicle
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Meanwhile much of the northern half of the US was drenched by rain.
Times, Sunday Times
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After the firm who supplied the drench paid out compensation, Jim went to a stud breeder and asked to buy a heifer for the same amount.
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The refinery, strewn with asbestos and drenched in oil, was an ecological disaster.
Times, Sunday Times
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He added big floral prints drenched with reminiscence and balanced retro-looking fabrics like lightweight cotton voile and washed twill with modern nylon and Lycra blends.
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Later I discovered that the carpet was drenched with a foul smelling liquid that I can only assume is ectoplasm.
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My hair was drenched and plastered to the sides of my face, and my sopping clothes clung tightly to my shivering body.
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The big tourism sector was hit especially hard because rising prices made its sun-drenched islands far more expensive than resorts in Turkey or Tunisia.
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While other children were sunning themselves on beaches in Brittany or sending postcards from Greece, we were getting drenched at Culloden or counting midge-bites by Loch Arkaig.
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To reflect this, and to evoke a sun-drenched atmosphere, a colour scheme of Mediterranean blues and soft pastels, with the occasional injection of Bordeaux wine tones has been used.
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Then as you pull out and back, the wave breaks five yards further, and you are drenched by the breaking crest blown up and back by the wind turning it into a rainsquall and the sunlight creates a hundred rainbows in the drops ... just for you.
Michael Jones: Surfing Lee Street Beach
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It was summer days drenched with sunlight, fields yellow with buttercups, and barn lofts sweet with hay.
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We are drowning in floods of consumer goods and are drenched in showers of media images.
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At the center, a glass object drenched in a pool of vermilion and gold recalls Harold Edgerton's famous ‘Milk Drop’ stroboscopic images.
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Yesterday's evening rains soaked the dirt enough to cause hundreds of nightcrawlers to surface, thus thwarting death by drowning in drenched soil.
Fun With Bait Collection
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We were drenched, cold, and in need of consolation.
Christianity Today
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I watch men or women pushing carts heavily laden with their wares in searing temperatures, stifling humidity or drenching rain.
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And yes, they need sun-drenched days to produce the rampant vines that manufacture carbohydrates that sweeten the fruits.
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It was an exquisite fall day, drenched in sunlight with a soft breeze ruffling the brightly colored leaves.
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He is drenched in sweat and can barely speak.
Times, Sunday Times
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The experiment had to be abandoned however as drenching rain was continuous and the tent was blown down.
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Yes, I'd read the brochures describing the sun-drenched charms, magnificent reefs and warm summer seas of Malta and it seemed like the perfect setting for my aquatic adventure.
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Now, lying on the floor, drenched in sweat, my head a sandstorm of emotion, I know that I've snapped.
CHAMELEON
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I have this among perovskia and lavender in one sun-drenched garden in the Cotswolds, and for months on end it will fill the garden with a vibrancy of colour and bees before browning off to provide valuable skeletons for the winter.
Life and style | guardian.co.uk
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He intersperses the grim drama, shot in darker tones often with a handheld camera, with Precious 'escapist fantasies, drenched in vivid color and tinged with humor.
'Precious' is raw and painful but poignant
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I'm supposed to be on my summer holidays, but I can't go outside because the rain is so heavy I'd be drenched in seconds.
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After fatally stabbing a Northwest D.C. man 30 times and leaving his naked body slung over his bed and drenched in bleach, the assailant used the victim's credit card to buy a soda at a nearby CVS and a ticket for a movie at a Silver Spring theater, a District homicide detective testified Friday.
Man accused of fatally stabbing victim, using his credit card, held in D.C. jail
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All he would spare was the occasional stealthy glance to ensure that he wasn't going to look like a drenched rat at the end of it all.
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‘Eskimo Lament’ comes first, drenched in sombre piano and plucked guitar, before the arrival of gorgeous harmonies and trumpet flourishes.
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Not raining, just cloud and fog and mizzle, although the weather radar shows Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and western Maine getting drenched.
And the gloom abideth forever
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The promise of heaven is rather less tangible than the promise of a sun-drenched holiday in the Caribbean.
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Threatening storms stayed away until the end of the carnival procession when those on the floats and spectators heading home were drenched.
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The bulwarks are high above the deck, the scuppers wide enough to clear the most drenching waves.
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As the camera slowly and gracefully zooms back from a tight close-up of stormy waves to the rain-drenched street where Allen's character grew up, it's as if we're transported to the time of his dreams, his memories.
