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How to use wick in a sentence

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After getting the dust off the glass she lit the wide wick and replaced the chimney.
In his hands he held a red candle with a wick that burned with a dancing flame.
Picking up a small match to light a candle, Mary hesitated before setting the fresh wick to flame.
The wick of the candle is either made of a braided or twisted plant fibre which is the safest to burn.
In the original device, the wick was manipulated by a screw-type wick raiser.
The Davy lamp was fuelled by oil or naptha, and the wick was contained in a metal gauze cylinder.
Portions of the wick that are not evaporating the liquid fuel are themselves consumed in the flame, limiting the exposed length of the wick.
The clothing line will include running and cycling shorts, shimmels, caps and swimsuits in technical fabrics that breathe and wick away moisture.
In 1935 modifications in the same lighthouse were carried out and an occulting light equipment was installed in place of the fixed wick lamp.
The wick caught fire immediately and Julius threw the Molotov cocktail with amazing force.
For active people, high-performance polyester microfibers quickly wick moisture away from the body.
Gone are cotton loincloths and turbans in favor of microfiber stretch workout togs that wick perspiration away from the body.
I changed the wick and coated it with thermoluminescent salts which glow when they get hot.
As the wick flared and settled, she placed the taper in a silver holder to allow it to burn out of its own accord.
I can see this weblogs.com switchover is going to get on my wick very very quickly indeed.
It's really odd, and it's been going on for hours and it's starting to really get on my wick.
Bubbles from an aquarium pump and absorbent paper to wick water up the sides served to increase the humidity.
Some modern fibres used in socks, such as polypropylene, can wick water away faster.
Place pots in a shallow container and let them wick water from the bottom up.
Dri-Release T-shirts and shorts from Soffe offer wearers quick-dry properties to wick perspiration away.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Here I quarrelled with the captain about some cotton wick, and I threw up my situation.
I had failed to put the extinguisher on the lighter, and the wick had gone on burning.
The second is to trim the wick and do whatever else it needs to correct the smokiness.
The inner tube was open, so that air could reach the inner surface of the wick as well as the outer surface.
In the figure the lubricant is supplied by a wick running into the reservoir.
She rose and, lighting the wick at the wavering crown of tiered tapers, placed it so that it dominated all the rest.
It was the oil which replenished the lamp when the wick had burned to the very socket!
A flat wick should be slightly rounded, the middle being the highest point, like this diacritic, not this one.
May not the effect be mechanical, the appulse of the air separating the flame from the wick.
A rough example of No. 44 was found at ballas, used anciently as a lamp with floating wick.
The stem is the wick, and as it is usually dark at the end, it is a very good imitation of a candlewick that is partially burnt.
The velocity of the current of air likewise facilitates the action of capillarity by carrying the oil to the top of the wick.
Dora, who was the most practical of the three, examined the cooker and re-trimmed the wick.
There was a lamp, its wick turned low, burning upon the table in the room.
Then came a bright flash as the wick fell, and all was dark.
She left it, and paused to trim the wick of the candle before she tried the buhl cabinet next.
He lighted the lamp, turned down the wick, and replaced the chimney.
The char from the top of the wick must be brushed off from time to time.
The wick is, of course, bevelled to correspond to the form of its tube.
He shied his helmet into the corner, and in half a minute he had a new wick in the alcohol lamp and was firing up on the croup-kettle.
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