dowse - use in sentences

Present participle complement

  • use: These, like the electricity supply, follow the grid lines on O.S. maps, and can be dowsed using a hazel twig.

Object

  • rod: With a dowsing rod it is easy to find the subterranean water veins under a standing stone.
  • reaction: There is no reason why the brain should be involved at all in a dowsing reaction.
  • tool: Don't go only with the movement of the dowsing tool.
  • session: Do I, or others need the information or knowledge that will be revealed from the dowsing session?
  • technique: Participants will experience hands on practical development of dowsing techniques.

Preposition: with

  • water: I remember hammering the lead pipe flat to stop the leak whilst being dowsed with icy water.

Used with why or when

  • that: This is the area of dowsing that is most immediately useful to most people.

Infinitive complement

  • locate: The only text-book I know that discusses the use of dowsing to locate trenches and ditches is John Coles ' Field Archeology in Britain.
  • find: In the north, the Yew was used for dowsing to find lost property ( enlisting the help of the ancestors?

Preposition: with

  • pendulum: Natasha'read ' the information held in them, dowsing with a pendulum to check it.

Preposition: for

  • mineral: Take for instance, dowsing for a specific mineral, many people find it beneficial to hold a sample of the mineral.

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