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[saus] / 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

He was going also to Bayreuth, Germany, to "take a big Wagnerian souse in Parsifal to purge myself of all my sins . . . moral and political."

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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

Previously on music’s biggest night, most everything was played live, which is why bum notes were to the Grammys what soused speeches are to the Golden Globes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2021

The acting is made of cardboard; but the legendary freak-out queen Veronica Cartwright is playing the movie’s soused matriarch — she’s cardboard origami.

From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2020

‘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

There was still a pretty stiff sea running, and every now and then a wave would strike them, sousing them from head to foot.

From Fordham's Feud by Bertram Mitford

By the time he had established himself on terra firma, he was, from his sousing in the mud and water, a ludicrous looking personage.

From Four Years A Scout and Spy by E. C. Downs

He took it in his little hands, went to his water dish, and washed the meat thoroughly, sousing it up and down till it was almost a pulp, before he swallowed it.

From A Northern Countryside by Rosalind Richards

Lum Gillespie dropped the hose with which he was sousing an automobile in front of his garage and approached the group.

From Anderson Crow, Detective by George Barr McCutcheon




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