Sentence examples for try to douse from inspiring English sources
David Cameron went to the Commons on Monday to try to douse a daunting outbreak of potentially lethal political problems.
"We threw him in the ditch of water" to try to douse the flames, Mr. Rahmani said.
"If a house is on fire, most people would get out and try to douse the flames from there, not stay in and risk being burned".
Photograph: Valda Kalnina/EPA Updated at 4.08pm GMT 3.53pm GMT Here Bangladeshi firefighters try to douse the fire on a bus started by activists of the Bangladesh National party during the general strike in Dhaka.
Conciliatory statements have been made to try to douse the flames.
"I hope it's not telling us what's going to happen this summer," said Leesa Martling, a 56-year-old landscape designer who watched people try to douse the Silver Lake fire with water buckets.
No one, they claim, tried to douse the fire.
(So far, 6m have been sold).Competitors quickly tried to douse another conflagration of iPhone hype.
"Members of the rescue team are trying to douse fire and the smoke".
The downed power line also caused several small explosions while firefighters tried to douse the flames.
Turnbull government ministers quickly tried to douse the policy flare-up.
