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Sentence Examples There was a dead silence in the room except for the occasional crackle of the jumping embers inside the fireplace. In the array of colors lay hidden shadows, unshed tears, and embers of a poetic fire he couldn't help but love. The end of the trench should have a deeper area which is used to rake hot ash and embers into. Nothing like sopping wet drunks stumbling around blindly in the light from dying embers. The fire, which later simmered down into a soft golden glow was almost entirely forgotten until the embers were fanned to life by a gust of wind. The embers from the dying bonfires still burned, casting ghostly shadows over the ground. The little midfielder, now 34 and hoping to fan the embers of his career with Dundee United, certainly cannot be accused of name-dropping. The remaining embers lay smoldering, barely giving off any glow in the dark. Even when the water cannon finally beat back the flames, timbers smoked and embers smouldered until rain finally fell. As the last embers in the pipe slowly died out, the trapper looked momentarily beyond his bower and saw the drifting snow covering the entrance. The roof is typically threatened by burning brands or embers lofted by a nearby fire. We were standing near the beach watching the embers of someone else's fire and listening to waves break on the shingle. So she hyperventilated last May, fanning the embers of a sophomoric blog into a scoop and trumpeting her own role as star-finder in the process. Made of an inert mineral fiber, the embers are non-combustible and non-toxic, so they are safe for handling. Jim stepped away from the cold embers of the dead fire and walked into the jungle. Rubel burns a fire down to embers and braises vegetables, simmers spelt, roasts fish, and even steams a chocolate cake, all at his fireplace. With shaking hands you gather twigs and sticks from the firewood basket and coax the last embers of the fire to wake up too. Whereas some folks consider brown dwarfs the duds of the galaxy, astronomers see beauty in these substellar embers. They will eat in a dark kitchen in the farmhouse, sitting by the embers of last night's fire. He stared into the fire to avoid her gaze, to focus his thoughts within the flames and the glowing embers. Show More Sentences Flames and flying embers surrounded us and I was beeping the horn and had the headlights and the hazard flashers on. She again sat beside the fire, poking at its dead embers with a fallen green tree branch. They were seated in a square surrounding the flickering embers, and every now and then somebody would poke the fire to keep it burning. With an exasperated sigh, she stood and sat by the fire, poking the embers absent-mindedly with a stick. My quarters were cold and dark, the flames in the hearth having died to a small pile of glowing embers. Toward the end of his life the fiery disdain of his youth died to warm embers. Politicians in this country have been grubbing through the embers of the American election to see what they can learn. The glowing embers of the wood danced into the night sky, yet conveyed no warmth. The fire was down to embers with a small pile of wood next to it indicating that everyone had left early. Very often, the coals or wood embers that are used in fire walking also have a low heat capacity. Mac lifted the rest of the chunks of eel meat from their perches over the dying embers. Seconds later he saw the eyes again, the orbs reflecting off the dying embers of their fire. You can learn to sense this instinct and fan the glowing embers into a roaring blaze. Firefighters were still at the scene on Saturday morning dampening down the burning embers. The walls were stained with the tar of tobacco, and the burning embers of a long-lit fire were the only light the room provided. Croft was sprawled, half in the armchair, half on the floor, staring at the dying embers of the fire. Still the burning embers of the creative urge propelled her to serious writing. We huddled closely around its glowing embers as they struggled to keep at bay the piercing chill of the Andean night. Eventually, the besotted warriors either passed out or crawled away as the torches guttered and smoked into mere embers. In reality, however, it was plain that Macdowall, far from raising spirits, was fanning the embers of discontent. Show More Sentences A coffee pot, a kettle and a couple of pans containing rice and cari poule rested on a steel grill suspended over the embers. Once set off, they will shoot into the air, pop once, twice, thrice, and shower the old people and children below with an airburst of hot embers. A moment passed, and Hargrove, the Hudson prospector of middle-age gathered an armful of cherry kindling after he had brushed away the embers. A piece of wood dropped on the dying embers in the fire soon burst into flame. The room was quite dark, for the dying embers on the hearth provided only a faint radiance. The dying embers of the fire flickered and he squinted to get a feel of his surroundings. You are advised to think twice about trying to fan the embers of a dying love affair. He saw her stirring the embers of the dying campfire and tiptoed stealthily up behind her. The night was tinged with sadness for City by the sight of Cooper being stretchered from the field in the dying embers. Hunter returned to his place by Missy's side in front of the glowing embers of the dying fire laid in the black iron stove. He never eschewed an opportunity to rekindle the embers and fan the flames of friendship. They believed that these residual symbols were embers of a totalitarian collectivism that also lay smoldering in the socialist state. Mystra replied, her gaze once again returning to the smoking embers of the fire. It's full of smoking embers from a fire that has been burning down since sunrise. A few travellers wandered aimlessly between the caravans or sat nursing injuries and smoking roll-ups around the smouldering embers of a fire. Without the Nomex gloves, required for takeoff and landing because of the fire risk, the ladder rungs and safety pole are like burning embers. The last embers of Empire were still glowing in the hearth as the Iranians experience a democratic political awakening. The fire had burned low while we slept but the embers were still glowing and hot. Those marvelous blue eyes blazed in fury, shooting brilliant sparks and glowing embers. At its height, flames and a huge pall of smoke belched from the burning building, and showers of embers were scattered into the night sky. Show More Sentences An electric fan is now used instead of bellows to excite the embers and a compressor drives a spray painter, but other tasks are manual. Greg, who was the only one who knew how to do it properly, had been banking the fire every night so they would have embers to start the morning's fire with. An uneasy peace was negotiated during the dying embers of Bonetti's reign. He thrust it in among the glowing embers again and sat down on a box. The fire screen normally protects the home from leaping embers. He got as close as he could before plunging his gloved hand quickly into the center of the smoking embers, and drawing out a long blackened object. All of a sudden the sky went from red to black and a strong gust of wind estimated at about 100 knots blew fist-sized embers into the yard, setting it ablaze. The embers are mouldering, a single spark may relume the blaze. I couldn't do anything else but stand there and stare into the glowing embers and jumping flames in order to still the tears that threatened to spill over. Close by, a low fire burned, its flames licking hungrily at embers. There is need to cool off our tempers and stop fanning the embers of dissent and revolt for united we shall stand and divided we shall surely fall. The fire that had roared in the hearth was just glowing embers now. It was only as the fire brigade doused the final embers in my gutted home that I wondered if perhaps the invite had been a subtle Valentine's message after all. Make sure the condition of the spark arrestor on top of the chimney is inspected so that there are no tears in the fabric that would allow embers to escape. The girl threw a log on the fire, and poked the embers into flames. Their sleep was eased by the sound of water and the steady shuffle of hooves, the night closed in around them, drawing the light from the fire until it was glowing embers. He would love to think that his part, however small, in Liverpool's restoration under Houllier has stoked the embers of the club's tartan tradition. The embers of guilt over the entire episode are placed deep within Hilly, where it will smolder for the rest of his life. Kirik sat beside the hearth and prodded at the embers with an iron rod. After using her hands to clear her windpipe, she freed her eyes from the embers that were blinding her vision. Show More Sentences However, there was no sign of desperately needed rain and a westerly roared in from Australia's arid outback, fanning flames and scattering red hot embers to start new blazes. It's that first sly whiff of tobacco on the air, the steel-blue smoke slinking seductively across a shaft of light, the embers glowing brightly as a smoker draws in. The embers had gone out, leaving a chalky residue of charcoal and ash. Fire walkers do not walk on fire but the fire bed, which is made up of the red-hot glowing embers of the wood. By morning, ceramic shards lay scattered amongst long-burning blackwattle coals, the ironbark and black-cypress embers. As with the arrestor, a screen was incorporated to retain any large embers. When the bottom of the grill firebox burned through, everybody ran over and stomped embers too keep the picnic shelter from catching fire. It eradicates the dying embers of fuggy meeting rooms, stale offices and smoke-imbued clothes. Mr Thorneycroft, 43, doused deadly embers while 20 women and children sheltered in the Kinglake National Park Hotel coolroom with their pets. The wood is used for fuel, being easy to saw and to split with an axe, producing a hot flame and good embers when burnt. Thompson, it only takes a moment for him to lead you into breathtakingly emotional meditation on the sort of loss that falls around you like the embers of a burning building. Flying embers started a fire in Southwark but it was quickly stopped. On these red embers Hatteraick from time to time threw a handful of twigs. Even in a situation of no wind, small lightweight ignited embers can lift off the pile via convection, and waft through the air into grasses or onto buildings, igniting them. The exhaust grating helps to prevent the spread of burning embers. The heat is traditionally provided by charcoal or glowing embers. If one looks back at the emergence of the group, it rose from of the embers of al-Qaeda in Iraq and was facilitated by the American prison, Camp Bucca. In the absence of a brick oven, the beans were cooked in a beanpot nestled in a bed of embers placed near the outer edges of a hearth, about a foot away from the fire. Typically, the peppers are roasted over embers, which gives them a distinct sweet, spicy flavour, more akin to bell peppers than chile peppers, despite their small size. Embers began burning in the east, casting light upon the land in the early winter hours. Examples from Classical Literature But in an instant a rekindling gleam of the embers, hardly quenched, shot over the singer's face. Yates gathered some fuel, and managed to coax the dying embers into a blaze. Tiny birds, bosomed with fire, were shooting by in long curves, like embers flung by invisible hands. Her callousness was like a gust of wind upon the living embers of his fears. Carmena rose from beside the embers of the fire with the pan and corn bread. So hard it is, even for the most depraved, to stifle the last embers of the moral sense. He, with his eyes fixed on the embers, had sunk back into the dolorous past. The fire was out now, the firefighter hosing down the last embers, going through the crowd and checking for injuries. This was to roast beetroot on hot embers for the removal of the odour of garlic. The ex-parson made way for Alban, grandiloquently offering a niche upon the bare floor and a view of the reddening embers. She watched the thin paper curl and smolder among the smoking embers of last night's blaze. He pushed a smoldering log with his foot toward the remnants of the embers. When the incarnadine embers of sunrise glowed in the east, the Missourians stood on the battlements and surveyed their domain. Flying embers clattered upon the tindery roof, and in a moment the whole top of the long structure was ablaze. Nothing but the embers of the wagon and the unconsumed iron work, of course, now remained in the road. By neglect of the servant, some unextinguished embers had been placed in a barrel in the cellar of the building. And OMA looked into the embers, and she too saw the flickering spirits of the things to be. With a hot stew, there is nothing more palatable than a stack of piping hot biscuits cooked in a spider over a bed of red embers. Fearing winds could kick up embers, firefighters rushed Thursday to douse remaining hot spots of a fire that blackened 810 acres near Fort Tejon. The next thing she did was to rake back the red embers, and make a hollow place among them, just where the backlog had been. Show More Sentences All the dying embers of controversy were solicitously fanned. Her sandalled foot, all rosy in the glow, felt the warmth of the embers. In the clear embers I was tracing a view, not unlike a picture I remembered to have seen of the castle of Heidelberg, on the Rhine, when Mrs. But as Britons switched to lighters, the embers of the British match industry went out, and with it the Golden Orioles. It rekindled the few expiring embers of freedom, and revived within me a sense of my own manhood. My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire. He sank into the chair, and brooded over the embers, and shed tears. She vacantly hummed a fantastic tune as she poked at the wood embers on the hearth and munched a cracker. His eyes seemed to be smoldering like embers just ready to blaze. He strolled westward by Albany Street, facing the sunset embers, pleased, he knew not why, to move in that cold air and indigo twilight, starred with street-lamps. The glow, which they had just before beheld burning on his cheek, was extinguished, like a flame that sinks down hopelessly among the late decaying embers. Sue had a vision of a black and voluminous cloak spread upon the smouldering fire, of clawlike fingers scrabbling in the embers, a waxed and hideous face turned toward her. The embers of the great fire had so far burned themselves out and now glowed so low and duskily that I understood why these conspirators desired a torch. Hawkeye, without looking round to read his triumph in applauding eyes, very composedly stretched his tall frame before the dying embers, and closed his own organs in sleep. One of the men was heating something in a tin cup over the embers. Find more words! 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