Sentence examples for as a wick from inspiring English sources

For some musicians, the link between persona and material is as short as a wick.

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

"You were pictured on a number of occasions with a bottle full of petrol with a rag as a wick.

The Marysville fire was so hot that gas flared out laterally, acting as a wick, along which the fire caught quickly, crossing the ground in sudden, unpredictable pulses.

Because the string's bundle of tiny filaments was not sealed at the end and the sheathing tended to disintegrate, the tailstring was acting as a wick drawing vaginal bacteria up into the uterus.

When their heating system broke down last winter, thousands of people in the industrialised, energy-rich and once quite prosperous Primorsky (Maritime) region in far eastern Russia endured weeks of life at –20°C, warmed by nothing more than homemade heaters (such as cooking oil in a tin, with an old rag as a wick).

Use crushed volcanic rock (20mm screenings) as a wicking medium.

Add a wick as it's cooling down and you're all set.

In this paper, we explore porous polymer monoliths as a new wick material potentially applicable to these and other applications.

As a result, Wick finds himself either working with or defending against the killers embedded among us, and neither collateral damage nor geography is an obstacle.

The cross section of the aluminum container is designed as a groove wick structure at one side of the channel; a carbon wire is inserted to the other side.