How to Use douse in a Sentence

douse

verb
Definition of dousenext
Synonyms for dousenext
  • That's when she was doused with the acid, the grandmother claims.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 18 July 2023
  • When the last of the flames were doused, the firefighters climbed into the skeleton of the bus.
    — Nathan Thrall, Curbed, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The crash sparked a fire, but crews were able to quickly douse it, McEvoy said.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2022
  • The pair unwound a water hose to further douse the flames.
    — Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The protesters set fire to one of the buses and turned back a fire truck that rushed to douse it.
    — Krishan Francis, ajc, 2 Apr. 2022
  • Flames were seen coming from the roof of the Dike Newell School as firefighters sought to douse the flames.
    — Fox News, 13 June 2022
  • One of the fans who got doused by the drink then climbed up to the suite window to see who had been the offender.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 3 Jan. 2024
  • If the cabin walls start to burn too quickly, douse with water to knock back the flames.
    — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 29 June 2023
  • Others lined up to have a priest douse them with cold water.
    — Wojciech Grzedzinski and Siobhán O'Grady | Jan 20, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2023
  • He was taken to a park, taped to a bench, and doused with gasoline before the men set him on fire.
    — Ivana Hrynkiw | Ihrynkiw@al.com, al, 29 Mar. 2023
  • At one point, the three younger kids douse a soccer ball in gasoline and start kicking it around the yard.
    — Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com, 10 June 2022
  • In the 30-second clip, six drones move up and down one side of a 10-floor cement structure to douse flames.
    — Emiliano Tahui Gómez, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2022
  • The water should be on and the hose should be ready to instantly douse any wayward fires.
    — Rebekah L. Sanders, The Arizona Republic, 2 July 2022
  • They were not deterred when the water pressure in a fire hydrant proved too low to douse the flames.
    — Matthew Thompson, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Ground crews were able to douse the two fires, which burned less than an acre of total property.
    — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 27 July 2022
  • People are trying to put out a fire by dousing it with sand.
    — Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • They have been attacked with pepper spray, burned with hot coffee, and doused in urine and spit.
    — Kristin J. Bender, The Mercury News, 6 Apr. 2024
  • Ollie’s grew like wildfire in the 1970s before Brown himself doused the flames.
    — Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 6 Feb. 2024
  • About the only benefit of the loss: Mack Brown didn't have to get doused in mayonnaise.
    — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The prawns are doused in a deep orange saffron bisque made with roasted prawn shells and butter.
    — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2023
  • As crews were working to douse the blaze, a second fire was reported at a house three blocks away, Bolduc said.
    — Christal Hayes, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2022
  • My son offered to douse the flames flicking out from under the engine with a Diet Coke.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2023
  • To address the issue, dousing your kale with dressing is not enough.
    — Kendra Vaculin, Bon Appétit, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Of course, an olive oil cake doused in sweet raspberries offered the ideal sweet treat.
    — Eliseé Browchuk, Vogue, 6 Dec. 2023
  • In that 2021 case, the defendant doused a TriMet employee with milk in an act of racial hatred.
    — Agreen, oregonlive, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Some firefighters doused the fire from outside while others searched the house and worked from inside.
    — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2023
  • The singer, who is single, wears just a neon green thong bikini bottom as she gets doused with water.
    — Tracey Harrington McCoy, Peoplemag, 24 July 2023
  • Then wipe the outside of the window with a wet rag, followed by a pass with a microfiber cloth doused in your solution.
    — Jennifer Barger, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2024
  • But some of these acorns feature another, more pungent odor, as though they have just been doused with human pee.
    — Byphie Jacobs, science.org, 29 Mar. 2024
  • In the restaurant’s gilded ice-cream parlor, diners availed themselves of eleven flavors, along with Irish coffee and lemon ice doused in vodka.
    — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024

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