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[sous] / saʊs /


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Specialty products include beef hot dogs, cocktail sausages and hot or mild souse under the Magnolia brand.

From Washington Times Oct. 27, 2018

The trick is to veer away from souse holes?a vacuum on the downstream side of a boulder?because the swirl can pull the stern down and pop the bow up, propelling passengers into the drink.

From Time Magazine Archive

From here on out there are drops, rocks, and souse holes aplenty, but a straightforward line through the melee beckons.

From Time Magazine Archive

Through the mysterious medium of Strine, magic comes out mare chick, a terrace house is a terror souse, house-proud is assprad, and sacks of potatoes are sex apertaters.

From Time Magazine Archive

But, I tell 'ee, I did souse his head wi' vinegar when I got 'un indoors.

From The Passionate Elopement by Compton MacKenzie

Her main dish was smoked rainbow trout, citrus cured rillette, fried egg, chive mash, soused vegetables and herb butter sauce.

From BBC Mar. 14, 2023

What will this year’s Cannes jurors think of Östlund’s mash-up of Buñuelian chaos and “Gilligan’s Island,” complete with Woody Harrelson as increasingly soused skipper?

From Los Angeles Times May 22, 2022

Where they diverge has to do the rough grain Walter assigns to Malory, a quality the stubbornly refined but equally soused Lucille rarely demonstrates.

From Salon Aug. 25, 2021

The stultifying male-fronted country of the last several years has teetered between soused and affectionate.

From New York Times Nov. 6, 2019

‘Wake up and go down yourself. Call the cop and let him get soused on the chain gang with cornbread and peas. Go to it, Misses Brannon.’

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

First he took on a whiskered lion’s shape, a serpent then; a leopard; a great boar; then sousing water; then a tall green tree.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

To put a finishing touch to his misfortunes, a great big wave came tumbling in just then, and over poor Gipsey it went! sousing him head and ears!

From Neighbor Nelly Socks Being the Sixth and Last Book of the Series by Sarah L. Barrow

The bird hopped it, trod on air as one foot overstepped the narrow edge, and, with a sousing splash, he plunged headlong into the water.

From The Wireless Officer by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

But the animal, angered too, commenced pitching about, and tripping on the loose, slippery stones in the stream’s bed, went head over, not only sousing its rider, but flinging him from the saddle.

From The Vee-Boers A Tale of Adventure in Southern Africa by Mayne Reid

With the wheels sucking and sousing in the mud, the Wadsworth machine moved forward as rapidly as the conditions would permit.

From Dave Porter At Bear Camp or, The Wild Man of Mirror Lake by Walter S. Rogers




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