dowsing rod

Example Sentences

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That doesn’t mean your therapist will act as a best friend dowsing rod, but it should help produce insights more specific and actionable than “people seem to avoid spending much time with me.”

From Slate • Aug. 1, 2020

Back outside on the streets of Portland, I spun around as uselessly as a dowsing rod.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 5, 2017

If she seemed to be, as Mr. Lubow puts it, “a dowsing rod for anguish,” there were also many satisfactions in her life.

From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2016

McCormick had built equipment that could supposedly detect explosives from afar, which Randi recognized was simply a telescoping antenna swiveling on a plastic handle — a dowsing rod.

From New York Times • Nov. 7, 2014

The dragon- tooth point dipped toward the ground all on its own—like a dowsing rod searching for water.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan