sousing

IPA: sˈaʊsɪŋ

noun

  • An immersing or drenching in liquid.
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Examples of "sousing" in Sentences

  •  We kept on sousing ourselves like it was coming out of a garden hose.
  • As its title suggests, it pays tribute to the modern father of making sousing look swank.
  • Gus repeated, this time avowedly for the edification of another young fellow who was busily engaged in sousing his head in the water of the lake.
  • 'General,' said he, 'I scorn to mind being either wet or dry; a soldier ought to be above such delicate effeminacy: it is not, therefore, the sousing I regard, provided I can once be clear it was not done for a joke.'
  • Being those types, though, the Ikea cats will very soon revert to type and start scratching each other's eyes out, tearing out chunks of fur, and sousing the wood with piss before rutting each other senseless over the disassembled futon parts.
  • The direction and increase of the wind had made it necessary to keep the vessel still further to sea on their return than in going, that they might clear without risk the windy, sousing, thwacking, basting, scourging Jack Ketch of a corner called Old – Harry
  • Loud sousing and snorting noises were heard to proceed from a tub in the back quarters of the dwelling, proclaiming that he was there performing his great Sunday wash, lasting half-an-hour, to which his washings on working-day mornings were mere flashes in the pan.
  • There was a sousing in the water as of a brood of ducks plunging in, showing that the men had not been particular about keeping their legs, or even their waists, dry from the brine: but it was impossible to see what they were doing, and in a few minutes the shingle was trampled again.

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