When they were refused entrance to his brother's house nearby, they smashed down the door, broke the window, and threw lighted clothes wet with kerosene into the room.

When there was bridge at Edythe's house, the cards shuffled like wet graham crackers and the food probably was wet graham crackers.

When the rains return and soils become wet, the osmotic gradient between the bacterial cells and the soil water causes the cells to gain water quickly.

When printing, the stone is kept wet with water.

When you see him, recognise him: a man of medium height, reddish hair, wearing two light yellow garments, looking as if drops were falling down from his head though it will not be wet.

When the paint is wet it is pink in color but upon drying it regains its original white color.

When water becomes available, either during the wet season or through proximity to rivers and lakes, the vegetation explodes into shades of green with a wide variety of beautiful flowers.

When heavy, wet snow with a snow-water equivalent ( SWE ) ratio of between 6: 1 and 12: 1 ( in extreme cases, as heavy as 4: 1 ) and a weight in excess of 10 pounds per square foot (~ 50 kg / m < sup > 2 </ sup >) piles onto trees or electricity lines – particularly if the trees have full leaves or are not adapted to snow – significant damage may occur on a scale usually associated with hurricanes.

* When wet, tram tracks tend to become slippery and thus dangerous for bicycles and motorcycles, especially in traffic.

When relatively dry dough is worked by kneading, or wet dough is allowed to rise for a long time ( see no-knead bread ), the glutenin forms strands of long, thin, chainlike molecules, while the shorter gliadin forms bridges between the strands of glutenin.

When someone said " water " or " wet ", a large amount of water would mysteriously cascade onto him or her from above.

When wet milled, about 2. 3 litres of corn are required to yield an average of 947g of starch, to produce 1 kg of glucose or dextrose syrup.

When the wet season occurs during the warm season, or summer, precipitation falls mainly during the late afternoon and early evening hours.

When a trail passes across a flat area that is not wet, often all that is required is to clear brush, tree limbs and undergrowth to produce a clear, walkable trail.

When the craters were formed, eucalyptus forests dominated rather than the current wet tropical rain forests.

When a car suddenly heads directly toward Renard, he tries to run, but the new soles are so slippery, he cannot escape on the wet pavement.

When working with wet photographic plates, Swan noticed that heat increased the sensitivity of the silver bromide emulsion.

When Mr. Bradly arrives home he asks them in to dry off their wet clothes.

When cool, wet weather arrives in the fall or winter the mycelium grows from thatch or soil and infects leaves.

When not in use, the glass probe tip must be kept wet at all times to avoid the pH sensing membrane dehydration and the subsequent dysfunction of the electrode.

When the sand dries out or gets wet, the shape of a structure may change and " landslides " are common.

When a trout has been caught but the hook is still embedded, wet your hands before handling the fish.

When the temperature is high and the relative humidity is low, evaporation of water is rapid ; soil dries, wet clothes hung on a line or rack dry quickly, and perspiration readily evaporates from the skin.

When oil prices spiked during the 1967 Oil Embargo, 1973 oil crisis, and 1979 energy crisis, Alberta's economy boomed.

When disaggregated, only petroleum and non-petroleum groupings showed different results: a country with relatively low levels of dependence on petroleum exports is at slightly less risk, while a high-level of dependence on oil as an export results in slightly more risk of a civil war than national dependence on another primary commodity.

When the process feed has a diverse composition, as in distilling crude oil, liquid outlets at intervals up the column allow for the withdrawal of different fractions or products having different boiling points or boiling ranges.

When the oil: water coefficient is high, there will be little anaesthetic in the blood, so elimination will be slow, giving a prolonged hangover effect.

When dried the oil would act as a semi waterproof weak filler / glue.

When using lower grade fuel, or worn engine the oil change interval has to shorten accordingly.

When the measured pressure is rapidly pulsing, such as when the gauge is near a reciprocating pump, an orifice restriction in the connecting pipe is frequently used to avoid unnecessary wear on the gears and provide an average reading ; when the whole gauge is subject to mechanical vibration, the entire case including the pointer and indicator card can be filled with an oil or glycerin.

When increasing concern within the company over the pricing and availability of fuel during the oil crisis of the 1970s became an issue of contention, smaller engines were considered in the interest of fuel economy.

When rubbed on the skin at the painful site, snake oil was claimed to bring relief.

When a turbopump is stopped, the oil from the backing vacuum may backstream through the turbopump and contaminate the chamber.

When the team debuted as the Oilers in 1960, the club's logo was an oil rig derrick.

When TrueType and the license to Microsoft was announced, John Warnock of Adobe gave an impassioned speech in which he claimed Apple and Microsoft were selling snake oil, and then announced that the Type 1 format was open for anyone to use.

When Dubai's oil exports commenced in 1969, Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai, was also able to use oil revenues to improve the quality of life of his people.

When oil was discovered at the Maracaibo strike in 1922, Venezuela's dictator, Juan Vicente Gómez, allowed US oil companies to write Venezuela's petroleum law.

When oil is applied to the model surface it can clearly show the transition from laminar to turbulent flow as well as flow separation.

When some other important feast occurs on a weekday, such as the First and Second Finding of the Head of John the Baptist ( February 24 ), the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste ( March 9 ), etc., it is usually combined with the Lenten service, and wine and oil are allowed at the meal.

When cut or grated, however, enzymes from the damaged plant cells break down sinigrin ( a glucosinolate ) to produce allyl isothiocyanate ( mustard oil ), which irritates the sinuses and eyes.

When mature they still contain some water and can be used as seednuts or processed to give oil from the kernel, charcoal from the hard shell and coir from the fibrous husk.

When cooking leaner meats, oil is often applied to the pan ridges to aid in food release.

When oil began to gush in West Texas in the early 20th century, and again in the late 1970s, Fort Worth was at the center of the wheeling and dealing.

When Monte Carlo simulations have been applied in space exploration and oil exploration, their predictions of failures, cost overruns and schedule overruns are routinely better than human intuition or alternative " soft " methods.