Example sentences for: bonfires

How can you use “bonfires” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Concert-goers threw bottles, set fire to 12 tractor-trailers, and recreational bonfires grew into serious blazes.

  • Don't forget Woodstock 1999 --the concert of "peace and love" that ended in a literal blaze of glory when in an hours-long tribute to the original Woodstock, the mob started ripping down vendor booths and anything else that would burn and piling it onto the bonfires scattered about the scene.

  • In Monterey, California, the whole city comes out for Las Posadas, and in San Antonio, Texas, a posada is held during the Fiesta de las Luminarias (Festival of the Bonfires) that includes a procession on the Paso del Rio (river pass).

  • Not to be confused with farolitos, luminarias are small bonfires, and the custom of lighting them dates back to the Roman history of Spain.

  • The truth is, there are many of us whose gasoline rhetoric has fueled the Patriots' bonfires of paranoia.


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