Example sentences for: fires

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

  • Oil fires in Kuwait billowed smoke over troops throughout the area.

  • All Egyptian temples would appear vividly colored — much like the tombs in the Valley of the Kings — but little color has survived on most of them due to the effects of sunlight and smoke damage caused by fires when the temples were used as dwellings.

  • Badly planned, poorly made, and apt to burst into flames--no, not prime-time TV (although I, for one, would be more likely to watch Ally McBeal if the law firm were more frequently devastated by fatal explosions, or the nightly news if furious grease fires now and then ravaged Peter Jennings' hair).

  • The program was instigated after the 1997–1998 fires created a regional haze hazard, largely because of peat deposits up to 20 meters (21.

  • Describing the loss of an area the size of Belgium as an "ecological crime," the Paris newspaper said 20,000 Yanomami Indians, members of one of the last great indigenous tribes in the Americas to have preserved their ancestral way of life, are now threatened with starvation because of the fires.


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