dowser

Example Sentences

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Hill said there were dowsers in his own family, and that he has used the witching sticks himself on occasion.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 13, 2022

Other dowsers claim they can locate treasures, lost objects, alien life forms and stress in the body.

From New York Times • Jul. 17, 2021

Peopled by wandering cults and water dowsers, Gold Fame Citrus shows us that perhaps the notions of “Shangri-La” and “Man-Made Hell on Earth” are two sides of the same ideological coin.

From The Guardian • Feb. 12, 2020

Scientists say dowsers are often just lucky, looking for water in places where it’s already thought to be present.

From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2014

The river was lower than had ever been known or seen, and on the hills round the "dowsers" had been called in with their divining rods to find the vanished waters.

From The Naturalist on the Thames by Cornish, C. J. (Charles John)