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Example sentences for "sousing"

Lexicographically close words:
sourwood; sous; sousand; souse; soused; sout; soutane; soutenir; souterrain; souters
  1. And the more the boys kept sousing it to him, the more he kept taking 'em, till finally they quit.

  2. The lady only wanted to get his authority against sousing her little nephew, and said, "Pray, doctor, is it not both dangerous and cruel to be the means of letting a poor tender infant perish by sousing it in water as cold as ice?

  3. Another second and the active John had plucked him by the coat, and with a quick heave had sent him sousing into the sea.

  4. But there was no great depth there, and ere a minute had passed she had struck upon the bottom, and, sousing forward on to a level keel, she came to a permanent rest with both topmasts elevated some twenty feet in the air.

  5. But I heard the heavy sousing splashes and the yells of Dan and R.

  6. A sousing splash--and another tuna had my bait.

  7. The skipper was again straining the ship heavily: the creaking and groaning in the cuddy was incessant: and every now and again I heard the boom of a sea against the vessel's side, and the sousing rush of water on deck.

  8. He saw me pushing along the life-line, plucked up heart, and went with myself through a sousing sea to the door.

  9. Duckling and the boatswain each took an oar while Coxon steered, and away they went, sousing over the little waves which the fresh land breeze had set running along the water.

  10. When I dropped to sleep, the tide was swashing the floor beneath me, the rain still sousing and drenching the little windows and the roof.

  11. The prospect of another sousing quelled the termagant's spirit.

  12. The bird hopped it, trod on air as one foot overstepped the narrow edge, and, with a sousing splash, he plunged headlong into the water.

  13. Sir Moses, sousing himself down in an easy chair beside the table at which he had been writing "b-o-y Jove, what a production!

  14. The mother was there diligently sousing something that she had caught; and presently she appeared and the little ones forgot their play in the joy of eating.

  15. Once, on the long tote-road from St. Leonards to the headwaters of the Restigouche, I saw Mooweesuk sitting on a rock by a trout brook diligently sousing something that he had just caught.

  16. Wash on both sides by squeezing and sousing in the water.

  17. Wash a piece of new woollen cloth in each of the following ways: (1) By rubbing soap directly on the cloth and then sousing the goods in the water.

  18. If you do not take yourself away, we will see how you will like a sousing of some dish water; I have some here hot enough to make you jump.

  19. When her brood begins to lag and pine, the wild mother knows, and leading them to some old ant-hill, she gives them a sousing dust-bath.


  20. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sousing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.