He flared up quickly, but when his temperature reached a certain degree, sprinklers of cold water opened in his ceiling and doused the blaze, leaving him unharmed and hardly scorched.
She was slinking along in wet clothes and doused pride.
Just as I was doused with affection, I might have been completely ignored; thus, I believe it is of the utmost importance to acknowledge another's selfless expenditures, whether their value be measured in hours or coins.
As I returned to my parents in the lobby, I found the nearest trash receptacle and disposed of my reeking, alcohol-doused bandages; I disliked the odor for its strangely lingering overtones.
To the public, "I was the store" and any disagreeable feature of the store or its policies were dousedon me while the upper echelon stood beaming at a safe distance.
A man in the bows of the middle lugger showed a red lantern, and then doused it below the half-deck.
In fact I had plenty of time to see it, for we doused our sails several miles out to sea, and lay tossing in the storm to a sea-anchor, waiting for the short summer night to fall.
Then he applied the water plentifully to the lad’s face, and, opening his shirt, doused him with it.
Keep your engines doused with oil; give them plenty of gasolene, and stand by for signals,” had been the young captain’s orders.
So Henry doused his light, and the war came right home to us.
As he was about to stuff two pancakes rolled around two strips of bacon and doused with syrup into his mouth, Gramps stopped with the food halfway from his plate.
Now he didn't even seem to be thinking about food, as he put two pancakes together, laid two strips of bacon on the topmost pancake and doused everything with syrup.
She rubbed them with soap, and then, leaning over the edge of the boat, doused them up and down in the water.
We admired the washwomen for quite a while as they rubbed the clothes on the stone and then doused them up and down in the stream.
Oil can in hand, he doused the bearings and moving parts with lubricant from time to time, feeling a shaft collar or an eccentric band to detect symptoms of overheating.
Her occupants were doused from head to foot, but at the moment they did not care about that.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "doused" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
