| Using newly invented leather hoses and hand-pumped fire engines, the volunteers were able to douse fires more efficiently than bucket brigades. |
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| Small forest fires burst to life and the yellow sea-planes douse them with water. |
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| Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus dragged a man from the inferno before using hose reels to douse the flames in a 70-minute operation. |
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| Whack them in the microwave for a few seconds, douse them in cream and pretend you're paying a fortune at a gastropub. |
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| And so we bathe them in liqueur, toss them in ground peppercorns and douse them in elderflower syrup. |
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| The stream of water that spurted from the hose did less to douse the fire than it did to fan the flames with its accompanying rush of air. |
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| Avoid cold or ice-cold foods, as cold foods and drinks douse the digestive fire and decreases immunity. |
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| Opening his mouth, Peter took greedy gulps of it, allowing the cool gushes of water to douse his parched throat. |
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| After thoroughly covering your entire body, turn on the warm water and liberally douse a loofah with a liquid soap. |
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| Before major events in the city, he has spent thousands of dollars to douse clouds with dry ice and liquid nitrogen. |
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| Place the apples and currants in a plastic bag, douse with Calvados and allow to steep in refrigerator overnight. |
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| This worked about as well as the little baggie of muesli, whose contents one was expected to douse in a milk-like liquid. |
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| Luckily fire crews managed to douse the flames and neither of the women were injured. |
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| Traffic on nearby Leeds Road was disrupted as police diverted cars round standpipes pumping water from the main road to help douse the flames. |
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| Authorities are anxious to douse this blaze and begin dealing with its aftermath. |
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| They spent more than 11 hours containing the blaze and used a turntable ladder to douse it from above. |
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| A fireman was shot as he tried to douse a blazing jobcentre and a police dog handler survived a bullet ricocheting inside his vehicle. |
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| There is nothing to be gained by eating rabbit food if you douse it with mayo, oily dressings, cream sauces or sour cream. |
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| When the parrot got too loud, Taylor would draw a water pistol from his desk and douse him. |
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| At the first sound of her peremptory voice and click of the stiletto heels, people dart behind doors and douse the lights. |
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| The environment minister has attempted to douse the fires by putting together more piecemeal legislation but, guess what? |
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| In a building, a firewall prevents a fire from quickly burning through, giving firefighter a chance to douse flames, and occupants a chance to find safety. |
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| Basildon station officer Nick Beaver told how two crews took around 20 minutes to douse the flames and were there for another two hours damping down. |
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| My older brothers would clunk along the deck above, hauling on lines, and shouting to each other in the wind as they struggled to douse the flapping sails. |
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| Some shielded their eyes from the intense lights as others began to douse the ship's sails, accepting the fact that their voyage had come to an early end. |
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| Heidi's main function is to take the flak and douse the scene in dry ice at significant moments. |
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| It was fear of cancer and a douse of hypochondria that brought me to 23andMe in the first place. |
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| Fourteen years later, two rookie cops heard gunfire and saw a now 14-year-old douse coming toward them, that very gun in hand. |
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| One security guard reported that the fire extinguisher failed to work when he tried to douse the flames. |
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| The halon-based fire-suppression systems used by commercial jets in these zones are not able to douse such fires. |
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| The charity Water Aid is asking people to use recycled water from bathtubs or garden butts or to douse people with sea water. |
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| There is space only for the first five digits. But Vietnam's government seems newly determined to douse the inflationary fires. |
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| So we must do everything possible to douse the fire as quickly as possible. |
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| However, while attempting to douse the fire, he noticed a semi-conscious person slumped in the driver's seat. |
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| If you find a serious fire, please don't take any risks attempting to douse the flames. |
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| A deluge of liquidity, considered by economic players as Monopoly money, was unleashed to douse the fire. |
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| After several attempts to douse him under the shower and apply a cold pack to his welting face, our two year old showed no sign of faith in our knowledge of burn therapy. |
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| The Japanese baseball champs douse their star with Sapporo beer. |
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| After ten minutes of motoring, during which he remembered to douse the coaming and hull with some water, he left the yawl on automatic and went below again. |
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| Also, douse the robber bees with water to help slow robbing. |
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| Soldiers douse the pyramid with gasoline, in the presence of UN weapons certifiers General Henny van der Graaf of UNIDIR, Geneva, and Prvoslav Davinic, Director of the UN Centre for Disarmament Affairs in New York. |
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| A team of soldiers wearing protective clothing and respirators were armed with spray guns ready to douse all the vehicle wheels before they entered the cargo holding area. |
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| But this time the fire was expeditiously put out and the Legislative Library was not damaged by the fire, or by the water used to douse the flames. |
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| Use a squirt bottle to douse your doggie should he pester your cat. |
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| More than a dozen fire engines and about 80 firefighters continued their battle with the fire overnight, with many officers being hoisted into the air on extendible ladders to douse the flames from above. |
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| One of the best features is the individual water cannons that riders and observers can use to douse one another. |
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| She felt too lazy to douse the candle, to shoo away the silken formication that was making her involuntarily compress her knees and shut her eyes. |
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| Full frames of honey can sometimes douse the flames. |
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| In winter a douse in cold water helps the looks and adds to the style of the carcass, but they should be thoroughly dried before packing. |
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| During its course downstream the contaminated douse water is expected to have caused the mortality of nearly every invertebrate and small fish in the flow path. |
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| The total length of railway tracks in the European Union is around 213 000 km, and the amount of chemical we douse them with, according to the estimates, is around 900 000 litres. |
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| If hot fat or oil catches fire, NEVER use water to douse the flames. |
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| They douse their fields with toxic chemicals in an effort to boost crop yields and allow run-offs to mix with spring water, contaminating streams and sensitive aquaculture. |
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| High time, isn't it, for some of the genuinely touched to douse these grandstanders with cold water? |
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| His neighbour, Pascale Pelletier, who was outside attempting to douse the flames with water from a garden hose, made a decision to go inside to rescue the victim. |
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| To douse the flame, the float is carefully pressed down into the oil. |
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