Sentence examples for a wick for from inspiring English sources

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It can be used as a wick for a Molotov cocktail.

Later, Police Superintendent Robert Dunford displayed the crude model of a bottle with a wick for television cameras, calling it "actually a hoax device".

"I remember the dreadful whining sound made by those Russian bombs - we called them Stalinorgels (Stalin organs)." During a lull in the air raid, Ingeborg left the cellar and ran upstairs to look for a piece of string to use as a wick for a lamp.

Use it like a candle: The paper towel will act as a wick for the fuel (the bacon grease), and the flame will melt the bacon grease.

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A drought-stressed pine tree grew through the deck of home, offering an enticing wick for an opportunistic flame.

At the thinner end of the finished taper, create a small wick for lighting of about 1/2" (1.2 centimeters).

Hardcore users will spend hours watching a video tutorial to make their own coils, and customize their hand-crafted, made-in-the-USA piece with an organic cotton wick for a thicker cloud of vapor.

She filled it with a lump of margarine, used a skirt thread for a wick and lighted it.

Cruse lamp, small, iron hanging lamp with a handle at one end and a pinched spout for a wick at the other.

Referring to the campaign to ban Page 3 models in the Sun – which this particular group of feminists also thought was stupid – they said they would "Buy 20 copies of the Sun and ask only for Page 3", set them on fire and "use the tenner for a wick".

Kabeel (2009) investigated on a concave-type wick for absorption and pyramid shaped still were normally used for condensation.

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