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Example sentences for: fires

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Today, only a few buildings remain from before the fires; the wooden Het Houten Huis in the Begijnhof is considered the oldest.
The year before the outbreak of the American Revolution, Priestley succeeded in removing from air, so he thought, the substance called phlogiston which was thought to be what put fires out, and dubbed his dephlogisticated air oxygen because he supposed it to be an essential ingredient of acids (Greek oxy -, sharp—as in oxymoron —plus - gen , related to the verb gignomai , I become, happen, am born) .
David Plotz's polemic as to the citizenship of Winnie-the-Pooh serves only to stoke the fires of controversy swirling around the five unfortunate dolls.
Fires set during the rioting of 1936 at the outbreak of the Civil War tragically consumed all the trappings of chapels, choir, and altar, leaving the interior stripped to its essence.
Camping is allowed only in designated campsites, and fires are restricted to certain areas.