Sentence examples for delouse from inspiring English sources
verb
To remove lice from.
- A veterinarian could delouse your dog.
During severe outbreaks, insecticidal treatments and heat sterilization are used to delouse clothing.
Revisionists, it must be stated, do not deny the presence of crematoriums in the camps, or the fact that millions of people may have died in the camps from exhaustion, hunger, or disease, or the fact that Zyklon B was used in gas chambers, to delouse clothing, but they adamantly reject the notion that human lives were deliberately, systematically destroyed.
She oversaw a program to delouse children, to treat skin disease, and to maintain separate classes for children afflicted with trachoma — and, in the process, began an over-all effort for in-school medical care for children that led to the now familiar institution of the school nurse.
Draper: At the moment, I'm so sick of political journalism (including my own) that the sane recourse is to delouse my soul with fiction.
At Rashtrapati Bhavan, the wildlife takes the form of impertinent monkeys that fling themselves across the facades of the red sandstone pavilions, tails looping from domed chhatris, prehensile thumbs hitched on to crevices of pierced-sandstone jali screens as they nonchalantly delouse themselves.
His intimate, reportage-style snapshots of fellow- conscripts in the Austro-Hungarian army during the first world war writing letters, delousing, at the latrines, boxing or courting a peasant girl anticipate 1950s photojournalism.
Others have celebrated motherhood: in her book, "Lean In", Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer, writes about delousing her children aboard a corporate jet.Posing for powerCan anything be done about this predisposition for promoting people of a certain type?
Shortly after she meets Faber, filthy off a train from Russia, she delouses him in her parents' Berlin bedroom.
Lind recommended shipboard delousing procedures, suggested the use of hospital ships for sick sailors in tropical ports, and arranged (1761) for the shipboard distillation of seawater for drinking.
After a bath and a good delousing, of course.
In fact, excavations suggest that the special combs used by the Romans to strip lice from their hair were always in demand and "delousing" may have been a daily routine right across the Roman Empire.
