Sentence examples for wick from inspiring English sources

One of their best-selling products is the tiny white wick used in the oil lamps of Hindu temples.

Another thing that gets on our wick, according to Expedia, is someone playing music through his phone's speakers.

When their heating system broke down last winter, thousands of people in the industrialised, energy-rich and once quite prosperous Primorsky (Maritime) region in far eastern Russia endured weeks of life at –20°C, warmed by nothing more than homemade heaters (such as cooking oil in a tin, with an old rag as a wick).

The bulb of one thermometer is kept wet (by means of a thin, wet cloth wick) so that the cooling that results from evaporation makes it register a lower temperature than the dry-bulb thermometer.

The "cordons of light" placed around the sacred places of Buddhism during great festivals such as at Bodh Gaya, in India, for the Buddhajayanti (the commemoration of the Buddha's 2,500th birthday) in 1958 are composed of thousands of small brass lamps in the form of footed cups filled with ghee, in which a cotton wick is soaked.

They modified the design of the Dalkon Shield, adding a small amount of copper and a multifilament wick to aid in its removal.

Andrea Palladio's indoor theatre, also in Italy, used common light sources: torches, pine knots, open-wick lamps, and tallow candles.

The cruse lamp was a development from floating-wick pan lamps used by Mediterranean peoples in pre-Christian times.

So, shorts designed to flex and stay in place as you pedal and jerseys and base-layers that will wick-away sweat and won't ride up as you move.

He played an underground fight promoter in Out of the Furnace (2013), the menacing employer of the sex-addicted main character in Nymphomaniac: Volume I (2013) and Nymphomaniac: Volume II (2013), a German banker in A Most Wanted Man (2014), a henchman in The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and an assassin in John Wick (2014).

R.C. Sherriff, byname of Robert Cedric Sherriff (born June 6 , 1896 Hampton Wick, Surrey, England died November 13 , 1975 London) English playwright and screenwriter, remembered for his Journey's End (1928), a World War I play that won wide critical acclaim.