Sentence examples for kerosene pulling from inspiring English sources

In case there was any doubt about what the UN means by torture, the expert listed: "Beatings with sticks, stress positions, asphyxiation using plastic bags drenched in kerosene, pulling out of fingernails, insertion of needles beneath the fingernails, various forms of water torture, suspension for several hours by the thumbs, and mutilation of the genitals".

The kerosene heater would hiss as I rumbled through my dad's stuff, pulling out old copper wire and magazines, avoiding the places I knew he hid guns or old copies of Mayfair.

The sound and the smell of it – the rattle of trams, clop of horses pulling the gharries that served as taxis, the pervasive whiffs of kerosene, dust and dung.

The porters charged out ahead, displaying their uncanny gift for finding solid footing as they pulled homemade sleds loaded with food, kerosene, sleeping bags and assorted gear.

He also witnessed the passing of an era of lighthouse technology, as crude kerosene lamps floating in mercury and revolving mechanisms driven by hand-set gravity pulls gave way to new electric revolving drives and lights that automatically turned on at dusk and off at dawn.

The soldiers pulled a 14-year-old girl from the group and raped her in the yard, in the dim light of a kerosene lamp.

Suicide bombings will stop, he reckons, when the Israelis pull out of the occupied territories, and he says he would kill any Palestinian who tried to carry out such an operation if the Israelis were to withdraw.Abu Ahmad sprays kerosene on twigs and lights them to make tea.

At this stage most of the rocket's 270 tonnes of kerosene and liquid oxygen have been burned to escape the pull of Earth's gravity.

Pregnant and busy preparing dinner for her husband, who was a rickshaw puller, Miss Poly was cooking as she did every day when suddenly her kerosene cook stove exploded, engulfing her in flames.

Kerosene lamps?

Like a kerosene heater.