Example sentences for: fire-breathing

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

  • One virtue of having chosen these particular characters--a gruff, empathetic nurse instead of a polished, pro-choice lobbyist; a thoughtful, vaguely leftish Catholic as opposed to a fire-breathing evangelic--is that we can live with them for 500 pages or so.

  • Army striding through some South Seas devastation from Apocalypse Now . What's uniquely his own is the way the havoc periodically grinds to a halt to make room for "relationship" scenes, in which the characters maintain a soap-opera obliviousness to everything (crumbling skyscrapers, fire-breathing beasts) but their feelings .

  • NBC's $30 million expenditure is said to have paid off, with realistic special effects (fire-breathing dragons, a talking horse more convincing than Mr. Ed) and all-star performances from Sam Neill, Helena Bonham Carter, Isabella Rossellini, and Martin Short.


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