FIRE in a Sentence

Learn FIRE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
420 example sentences for FIRE, such as:
1. He quenched the fire with water.
2. Three removes are as bad as a fire.
3. Old use and wont legs about the fire.
4. Prompt action was required as the fire spread.
5. Pouring oil on the fire is no way to quench it.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of FIRE
fire
 v.  call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
 n.  fuel that is burning and is used as a means for cooking
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  When I had got so far in my list I threw it into the fire in despair.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  Looking back he saw the old man and the young girl crouching over the blazing fire, while the three animals stood motionless in the back-ground.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
3  When he turned the corner, he came full in sight of the spot where the fire had been lit.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
4  There was no living creature near the remains of the fire: animals, man, maiden, all were gone.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
5  Seizing a half-consumed piece of wood from the smouldering fire, he blew it into a flame, and proceeded with its help to examine the little camp.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
6  As he stood by the desolate fire, he felt that the only one thing which could assuage his grief would be thorough and complete retribution, brought by his own hand upon his enemies.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
7  With a grim, white face, he retraced his steps to where he had dropped the food, and having stirred up the smouldering fire, he cooked enough to last him for a few days.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
8  The reins, the halters, the blinkers, the degrading nosebags, were thrown on to the rubbish fire which was burning in the yard.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
9  Snowball also threw on to the fire the ribbons with which the horses' manes and tails had usually been decorated on market days.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
10  When Boxer heard this he fetched the small straw hat which he wore in summer to keep the flies out of his ears, and flung it on to the fire with the rest.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
11  There were fifteen men, with half a dozen guns between them, and they opened fire as soon as they got within fifty yards.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
12  But, Sir Spaniel, there are some stars that--ahem--stay fixed; that shine, to put it in a nutshell, never so bright as by a sea-coal fire on a brisk morning.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
13  The usual sounds reverberated through the shell; Sands making up the fire; Candish stoking the boiler.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 13
14  Utterson reflected a little, looking in the fire.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER DR. JEKYLL WAS QUITE AT EASE
15  The hall, when they entered it, was brightly lighted up; the fire was built high; and about the hearth the whole of the servants, men and women, stood huddled together like a flock of sheep.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Old use and wont legs about the fire.
2  According to eyewitness accounts, soldiers opened fire on the crowd.
3  Fire crews are hoping they can achieve full containment of the fire before the winds pick up.
4  From across the town came the rattle of machine-gun fire.
5  Prompt action was required as the fire spread.
6  We whiled away the afternoon playing cards in front of the fire.
7  Three removes are as bad as a fire.
8  She crumpled the letter up into a ball and threw it on the fire.
9  Firefighters played their hoses onto the base of the fire.
10  The fire spread very rapidly because of the strong wind.
11  The soldiers showed perfect discipline under the fire of the enemy.
12  Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us.
13  In case of fire, walk quickly to the nearest door.
14  He quenched the fire with water.
15  Pouring oil on the fire is no way to quench it.