Example sentences for: bonfires

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

  • It is believed luminarias originate from the huge bonfires built in pre-Christian times to celebrate rituals to the gods and goddesses.

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

  • Highlights from the melee included: 12 tractor-trailers set on fire, impromptu stripteases, giant bonfires with people leaping through the flames, looting of T-shirt vendors' booths, smashed ATMs, and a food fight with liberated soft pretzels.

  • 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.

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


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