douse
verb (used with object)
to plunge into water or the like; drench.
were dousing
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past progressiveof douse.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The blaze was 17% contained by Saturday morning as crews were dousing mulch fires in agricultural land north of the 118 Freeway just a few miles east from the fire’s origin in the Somis neighborhood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2024
Firefighters were dousing the roof with water to keep it saturated amid high winds on Mount Hood, said John Burton, marketing director for the lodge.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2024
For reasons that aren’t known, Cortez left other firefighters who were dousing a simulated fire on the third floor of a training tower and went to a fire escape, the report stated.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 11, 2020
Farmers were dousing corn and soybean fields there with the weed killer Roundup to wipe out many nuisance plants.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 2, 2020
At the entrance to the same field, a chaplain and his clerk were dousing cases of prayer books and Bibles with petrol.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
