How to use "fire" in a sentence

There was no fire, but the hot lava still produced light.

There was a cook by the fire and there was food on the table

Near the fire, there was a large cat with a big smile

It was terrible! People on fire, and nothing that we could do

Then, when it got light, an American plane came and used fire-throwers on the enemy - and almost on us! Suddenly the trees were on fire, and men were running out of the jungle with burned skin and clothes.

The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it - and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.

He was standing near the fire

At 9 o'clock on that Thursday night a great fire in London Docks changed the colour of the sky in the East End of London to a deep red

From the dirty streets, dark passages and slum houses of Whitechapel hundreds of people went to watch the fire

In the fireplace were the ashes of a large fire

The strong heat from the fire had melted part of a kettle

Why had the Ripper burnt them? When Abbeline discovered only one small piece of candle in the room, he thought that the killer had made a fire with the clothes because he needed more light to do his terrible work.

The stranger smiled with relief and sat down by the fire

'Brother.' Mile Baptistine turned to the bishop, who was sitting by the fire

'A priest?' Valjean said, sitting by the fire

That winter, Fantine saved money by not having a fire, and developed a small, dry cough

After hugging and kissing their mother, they sat on the floor by the fire and played with a doll

A large woman with greying hair, once red, was sitting by the fire, while a thin, pale-faced child sat on one of the beds.

Then, turning to his wife, he said, 'Quickly! Put out the fire!' While she poured water on the flames, the man broke the chair with his foot and told his younger daughter to break a window

A fire burned in the corner of the room, filling it with blood-red light

Marius watched as Jondrette put a metal bar in the fire and inspected a rope ladder on the table

Marius, meanwhile, raised his right hand with the gun, ready to fire the warning shot.

Marius, however, who had been going to fire the gun as a signal for the police to arrive, shook so much that he almost fell off the cupboard.

'Forgive me, father,' he murmured, preparing to fire the gun.

Thenardier sat on the corner of the table in silence for some moments, swinging his leg and gazing with a fierce satisfaction at the fire

Leblanc was standing by the fire, holding a metal bar above his head.

The brave man was in terrible danger, but Marius still could not fire the gun

Her heart on fire, she took the notebook upstairs to her bedroom and read every word again

Gillenormand was sitting in front of a large fire, staring into the flames and thinking bitterly of Marius

While he was gazing into the fire, thinking these sad thoughts, his old servant entered the room and asked, 'Will Monsieur receive M

Around the corner, he could see a row of soldiers aiming their guns down the rue de Chanvrerie, waiting for the order to fire.

It was cold and damp, but a fire had been lit and two armchairs had been placed in front of it

When he arrived, he discovered that the fire had not been lit, and the armchairs had been left near the door

well, I prefer fire."

"Yes, fire kills, and it destroys the evidence

And also a fire can look like an accident.

With fire? How? She locks him in a room in a burning house?"

You see, she runs until she hears the fire engines

Then he pushes open a fire door to his personal smoking area at the back of the court next to the bins and lights his cigarette

I lit a match and set fire to the pieces

Maxim sat in a chair by the fire reading the letters that had been waiting for him

The curtains were drawn and more logs put on the fire

The fire was laid, but not lit

I thought I would light the fire in the library

'The fire in the library is not usually lit until the afternoon, Madam,' he said

There is a good fire in there

Of course, I can give orders for the fire in the library to be lit.'

I was glad to see the dog, Jasper, there, sitting in front of the fire.

The small table was put near the fire and covered with the white cloth

His eyes were on fire with anger.

After dinner, they adjourned to the den, where Elliot built a fire in the black-granite fireplace

With a chilly night wind moaning at the windows and howling incessantly under the eaves, the blazing fire was welcome.

As an hour passed in front of the fire, and then another hour, Tina discovered that she liked Elliot Stryker more with each new thing she learned about him.

She left him there in the shadowy garage, his face painted by shimmering blue light, his eyes gleaming with twin reflections of fire.

But even as Tina looked from Elliot to the fire, before all of the shingles had fallen back to earth, a second explosion slammed through the house, and a billowing cloud of flame roared from one end of the structure to the other, bursting those few windows that had miraculously survived the first blast.

"But my house is on fire!"

"We have to wait for the fire company."

Tina looked out the side window, watching in disbelief as the flames spread from the shattered garage roof to the main roof of the house, long tongues of lambent fire, licking, licking, hungry, bloodred in the last orange light of the afternoon.

She was peripherally aware of a soft, fire like glow from beyond the cleft, and of a mysterious figure silhouetted against that reddish backdrop

The deciduous trees, stripped of every leaf, appeared to be charred, as if this particular winter had been more severe than others and as cataclysmic as a fire

Elliot held the vehicle on the pavement as they rounded the bend, and then they were out of the guard's line of fire

The revolver refused to fire.

The young man sat down, and put his wet feet near the fire

Sherlock Holmes sat silently, and watched the fire

I saw a ball of fire inside the transmitter and felt its heat on my face and hands

I put on my dark glasses again and saw and felt the ball of fire.

After dinner I took him up to my study where was a warm fire to sit by.

Then he put the envelope into the fire.

For a long time we watched the fire eating up Helene's 'confession'.

And all because it reminded you of something very different, something about a bag of wood for the fire.'

Then he set fire to the end of the rope, knowing that it would take about twenty minutes to burn through and for the stone to fall and cause the explosion

I now believe that this was a fire built to make an enormous gun in a very deep pit

Then flashes of bright fire came from the men, and I realized that the Martians were using some kind of invisible ray

As the unseen ray of light passed over them, trees caught fire and even the bushes exploded into flame

And far away to the west I saw flashes of trees and bushes and wooden buildings suddenly set on fire.

I saw a line of green fire pass through the moving clouds and into the field to my left

Very far away, lit by red fire, the common was visible

Between them were areas of fire and smoking ground

They were turning their gun to fire on one of the tripods when it suddenly exploded

They carry a kind of box that shoots fire and strikes you dead.'

Then came the sound of a gun and, almost immediately, other guns across the river, unseen because of the trees, began to fire

The air was full of deafening and confusing noises: the loud sounds of the Martians, the crash of falling houses, the flash of fire as trees and fences began to burn

The trees caught fire with a loud noise

I was walking the roads to clear my brain, and then - fire and death! All our work - everything destroyed

The shells blew up, the trees all around the guns caught fire and only one or two of the men escaped.

I expected at least to see smoke or fire, but there was only the deep-blue sky above and one single star

Every moment I expected a hidden gun to fire at it, but the evening calm was unbroken

Each of the Martians, standing in the great curve I have described, had used the tube he carried to fire a large cylinder over whatever hill, wood or other possible hiding-place for guns might be in front of him

Probably because it did not fire, it managed to get quite close

After that, the streets became clear of powder and I passed some white houses which were on fire

I sit in my study writing by lamplight, and suddenly I see the valley below on fire again, and feel that the house around me is empty and lonely

'No, there was a great fire in Atlanta after her husband's death, and all her papers were destroyed.'

'Yes, she got a duplicate after the fire.'

We all sit around a warm fire and eat our meal.

'I'll get the wood and make a fire,' George said

The vestry was on fire! I heard the sound of a man crying for help

Just then, the fire engine arrived

At the inquest the next day, the parish clerk said that the key to the vestry had gone missing just before the fire

Somehow they had caught fire, and Sir Percival could not get to the door.

"Come and stand near the fire," says the Sergeant

Sergeant Gonzales and the other soldiers are standing near the fire

Everyone must go near the fire and stay there!" says Zorro

They are sitting near the fire.