Example sentences for: embers

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

  • Every night from the 1st to the 14th, in a highly dramatic display clearly designed to entertain, temple priests brandishing long poles with a flaming cedar ball at each end run along the front of the verandah, deliberately showering the large crowd below with burning embers.

  • They run along the front of the verandah, deliberately showering the large crowd below with burning embers that are believed to bring good luck for the coming year, burning away transgressions from the previous one.

  • With the Clinton sex scandal now fading into embers, the tabs have entered a dark, morbid phase.

  • Newsweek also publishes a dispatch from a U.N. weapons inspector: "[W]hile they delayed us from entering some sites, we have seen Iraqi officials burning documents and throwing the embers into a river."

  • We sat grown quiet at the name of love;We saw the last embers of daylight die,And in the trembling blue-green of the skyA moon, worn as if it had been a shellWashed by time's waters as they rose and fellAbout the stars and broke in days and years.


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