How to Use dowse in a Sentence
dowse
verb-
For the Pink Floyd shoot, Rondell wore a fire-retardant layer underneath his business suit, was dowsed with gasoline and lit on fire.
—
Mike Barnes,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Aug. 2025
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Instead, their isotopic composition matches what could be expected from having formed in a chemically distinct and frozen environment farther from the sun, though still dowsed in the solar ultraviolet radiation required to trigger the reaction to form the amino acids.
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Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
11 Feb. 2026
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