1. Mother doused the clothes in soapy water.

2. The pumps were started and the crew began to douse the fire with water.

3. Men came with buckets of water and began to douse the flames.

4. He doused the flames with a fire extinguisher.

5. He quickly doused the candle's flame with his fingertips.

6. The car was doused in petrol and set alight.

7. The boys and girls doused each other with the hose.

8. They rushed past us with buckets of water and tried to douse the flames .

9. We watched as demonstrators doused a car in/with petrol and set it alight.

10. As a joke, they doused him with a bucket of water.

11. The candle's flame doused.

12. He doused the lamp,and we made our way back to the house.

13. They hurled abuse at their victim as they doused him with petrol.

14. Fire crews worked to douse hot spots left by two fires that consumed acres of forest.

15. They had doused a colleague's trousers with paint thinners, a regular initiation ceremony in their Skelmersdale factory.

16. Mike Chittenden staggered in flames into a neighbouring office, where terrified workers doused the flames and administered first aid.

17. Mr Chittenden had already doused himself in a flammable liquid and set himself alight.

18. The alchemist would burn incense and douse himself in specially prepared perfumes before carrying out his experiments.

19. The other old ladies are cutting up, making jokes, and Doi-san douses one of them with a bucket of water.

20. After decent dousing on Splash Mountain, need to go into spin cycle to dry off.

21. One is prone to dousing the headlights accidentally while signaling.

22. A slight breeze rose to cool his scalp, which had been sun-baked, then doused with water until it tingled.

23. Meanwhile, many homeowners are returning to find firefighters dousing smoldering flames and their belongings buried in piles of rubble.

24. Truth: It might wake you up, but a dousing of cold water will have no effect on the shininess of your tresses.

25. The other spider took a second dousing before it emerged, still alive.

26. After a liberal sprinkling of monosodium glutamate and a dousing in soy sauce they were ready for the table.

27. Officials are determined that nothing spoil the holiday atmosphere, dousing walkways underneath the Seine's Bridges with disinfectant to remove the usual smell of stale urine.

28. It is as if the solution to a default involves dousing yourself in gasoline and lighting yourself on fire. May I suggest that this is perhaps a bad idea.

29. They believe that the officer was providing cover for the criminals as they were dousing the building with fuel and setting it ablaze.

30. Nowadays the raisins have been replaced with a bottle of wine and the dousing with foam.

31. Nothing takes the sheen off shiny brunette strands faster than dousing them with hairspray, says Robinson.

32. Lay the casualty down as soon as possible to prevent the flames sweeping upwards. Quickly put out the flames by dousing the casualty with water.

33. Yep, you're dousing your environment with goodwill and at-oneness. Wow! The people around you are so lucky.

34. Let many aqua also incapability dousing, flood also the incapability drown!

35. The house caught fire and Churchill prevented the fire brigade from dousing the flames so the men inside were burned to death.

36. A so-called halophyte, the briny succulent thrives in hellish heat and pitiful soil on little more than a regular dousing of ocean water.

37. And do not, under any circumstances, try to improve her mother's food by dousing it with soy sauce.

38. Retreating soldiers were dousing homes and shops with petrol and setting them on fire.

39. At this point, the specimen can be shattered by dousing it with sterilized warm saline.

40. Their friendship was very helpful in brokering peace on Ansion, and dousing the threat of secession.

41. Firefighters spent hours dousing the rubble with water to cool it down so they could search for bodies and survivors.

42. As he climbed the 30 metre ladder rig operators tried to stop him making it to the platform by dousing him with a freezing jet of water fired from a powerful water cannon.

43. The dour outlooks come on the same day that the National Association of Realtors said home sales reached a 15-year low in June , dousing hopes that the industry had reached a bottoming point.

44. The firemen unwrapped their hoses and began dousing the scorched grain silos.