How to Use fire in a Sentence

fire

1 of 2 noun
Definition of firenext
Synonyms for firenext
  • Stay away from the fire.
  • How did the fire start?
  • The fire went out and he had to light it again.
  • We warmed our hands over the fire.
  • She built a fire in the fireplace.
  • The shack was destroyed by a fire.
  • Two people died in that terrible fire.
  • The fire caused heavy damage to the first and second floors of the house, the fire chief said.
    — Fox19 Digital Staff, The Enquirer, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The fires from the monasteries were rumored to have burned for weeks.
    — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The bolt sliced through the roof, setting him on fire and stopping his heart.
    — David Begnaud, Analisa Novak, CBS News, 6 Oct. 2023
  • By 5:50, there was footage of the plane on fire on social media.
    — Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2024
  • The fire was still burning about two hours after the landing.
    — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 2 Jan. 2024
  • One of the gels in the light had overheated and there was an actual flame and fire.
    — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The work of multiple agencies was needed to put out the fire.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 11 Nov. 2023
  • No loss of property except for the two vehicles that were the cause of the fire.
    — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 June 2023
  • Tex has come under fire for holding the two sales while still at the center of the homicide case.
    — Maureen Maher, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2024
  • When crews arrived about 75% of the building was involved with heavy fire.
    — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Outside there's a charcoal grill and a fire pit outside for s'mores.
    — Abigail Bailey, Good Housekeeping, 13 June 2023
  • It’s been amazing the whole time, but everybody was just on fire.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Video footage showed a white Nissan van near the homes around when the fires occurred, detectives said.
    — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 1 June 2023
  • And the fire is just one of five blazes currently scorching the Texas panhandle.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 2 Mar. 2024
  • First responders arrived on the scene, putting water hoses through the bus windows to put out the fire.
    — Jillian Sykes, CNN, 3 June 2023
  • Residents in all six of the occupied units were displaced by the fire.
    — Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 4 Mar. 2024
  • After the last fire comes the finishing stage of hand polishing, which brings the enamel work to life.
    — Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The risk of being hit by unpredictable small-artillery fire was too great.
    — Lynsey Addario, New York Times, 26 June 2023
  • But when in doubt—when nothing else is drawing a strike—fire out a wacky rigged Senko, work it back painfully slow, and hang on.
    — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Jackson Hole, Wyoming What could be more romantic than snuggling up by the fire after a day out in the snow?
    — Claudia Fisher, Travel + Leisure, 2 Mar. 2024
  • But Kardashian has never shied away from keeping many irons on the fire.
    — Jane Thier, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2023
  • That fire spread to more than 60 cars in the garage, caused more than half a million euros in damage and endangered the life of a woman who was in the garage at the time.
    — Christopher F. Schuetze, New York Times, 16 May 2023
  • There's also a fire pit area and a separate guesthouse.
    — Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2023
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fire

2 of 2 verb
  • The gun failed to fire.
  • The shortstop fired the ball to first base.
  • He fired at the police.
  • She fired the arrow at the target.
  • The angry mob fired rocks at him.
  • The soldiers fired on the enemy.
  • The boxer fired a left jab at his opponent's chin.
  • He fired several shots at the police.
  • She had to fire several workers.
  • The story fired his imagination.
  • Someone fired a shot which struck the rear door of her car.
    — Mary Zahn and Bill Janz, Journal Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Police say Gutierrez ran up to the group and fired a shot at the man.
    — Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The teen fired two shots and one of those rounds struck the victim in the torso, the release states.
    — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Scott Frost was fired after the Huskers started the season 1-2.
    — Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Police swung batons and fired tear gas to disperse the crowd.
    — Riazat Butt and Munir Ahmed The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 10 Feb. 2024
  • The 32-year-old then fired multiple shots into the 36-year-old's head.
    — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The clack of assault rifles being fired punctured the air.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • In the 900 block of F Street, an officer fired once, striking the man, Carroll said.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Obayashi said the discovery of guns in the home is not reason enough for the officer to have fired his weapon.
    — Katie Mettler, Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2024
  • After firing the shot, the driver fled the area and the sergeant was not injured in the incident.
    — Fernando Cervantes Jr., The Arizona Republic, 8 July 2023
  • Carlson had recently been fired from Fox News at the time.
    — Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 20 Oct. 2023
  • White said it’s not yet known whether the driver fired his weapon or pointed it at the officer.
    — James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The machine can fire a single petawatt laser pulse every hour.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Jan. 2024
  • And Cassidy, hired a week after getting fired by the Boston Bruins last year, proved to be the coach to get them there.
    — Mark Anderson, ajc, 14 June 2023
  • Ford quickly reopened and leaned through the drive-thru window and then allegedly fired shots at the red truck.
    — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Officers responded to a call of shots fired at Cole’s Flea Market in the Pearland area about 5:30 p.m.
    — Pilar Arias, Fox News, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Four to six shots were fired into a group from a moving vehicle.
    — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2023
  • Upon his return in the morning, Jones was fired by Chambers.
    — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Officials did not provide further details on the car crash or who owned the weapon that was fired.
    — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Prior to shots being fired, an officer can be heard yelling at Irizarry to show his hands.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2023

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