Sentence examples for up to douse from inspiring English sources

The romance thickens predictably, the forces of tradition rise up to douse the light of progress, and, perhaps not quite soon enough, somebody ends up headless.

Also, keep a spray bottle of water handy to douse any flare-ups.

As a helicopter rumbled back and forth overhead, fetching water to douse wildfires being whipped up by strong winds in the nearby mountains, he told me how he came to the Navy.

Through the haze, an armoured truck trundled up and started picking out isolated individuals to douse with water from the cannon mounted on its top.

Full report [PDF] Country chapter [PDF] Afghanistan map [PDF] A burning school Juma Khan, 13, ran barefoot from home to school in the middle of a windy June night to douse the flames leaping up from the roof of his school in the remote village of Arzankar in Charbolak district of Balkh province in northern Afghanistan.

If jet black sucks up your powers use the redhot/coolblue kick to douse his powers.

Turnbull government ministers quickly tried to douse the policy flare-up.

Firefighters had torn up the back of the house to douse the flames.

A serious fire developed in her cotton cargo, and she was scuttled in Dingle Bay on the west coast of Ireland to douse the flames, but subsequently broke up in bad weather.

Humbug!" When the subject of the Olympic Games comes up, I feel like Ebenezer Scrooge in his unreformed middle period, ready to douse the first signs of enthusiasm with a cold bucket of cynicism.

Jacking up the nominal cost of money is not the way to douse inflation in the late 1970s and early 1980s interest and inflation rates were both in double digits.