Sentence examples for dowse from inspiring English sources

In Peckham a shop was set ablaze and, because it was beyond the police cordon, the fire brigade was unable to move in to dowse the flames until police charged rioters to clear the street.

"Douse" means to plunge something into water and make it thoroughly wet; "dowse" means to use a divining rod to find underground sources of water.

But "dowse" and "douse" are two distinct words, though the dictionary has little to say about the origins of either.

Morgan tried to dowse some of the flames by mentioning the terrorist attacks on London in 2005 which happened on the day England were playing Australia in a one-day international in Leeds.

Tells about a visit he made to an orchard to select new sticks to dowse with... Some months ago Fred Neumann died of cancer.

In the story's present tense, she is in her mid-30s, living with her 11-year-old twin sons in the upstate New York town where she was raised, and occasionally turning her paranormal gifts to modest advantage by hiring herself out as a diviner; when asked, she'll dowse for water in her neighbors' fields.

His professional reputation suffered somewhat in later years when he concentrated on the scientific study of biomagnetism and dowsing.

Some dowsers claim to be able to detect buried substances merely by passing a dowsing rod over a map of the area where the substance lies hidden.

Persist, and a pungent, skunk-style dowsing from its anal glands helps get the point across.

The flame is dowsed with a squeeze of lemon.

The common name refers to the forked twigs that were sometimes used for water-witching or dowsing to locate underground water.