Editorial »

How to use the word fires in a Sentence?

Sample usage from literary quotes and the newswire.

Filter by category:

281 results found

Heat, because it is silent and invisible, does not have the telegenic nature of these other big climate hazards like floods, hurricanes and fires, people do n’t have the awareness that’s necessary, and that’s why it’s killing more people than any other climate hazard. It needs P.R. and branding.

Baughman McLeod

Found on New York Times
9 months ago

All these cities like Bakersfield and Visalia are in a valley near the forests that are seeing big fires. There’s also intense agricultural and industrial work there, so they unfortunately have all the worst conditions for air pollution.

Tarik Benmarhnia

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Ukraine needs to increase its capabilities for combined arms warfare ahead of their counteroffensive. This requires a high degree of coordination between various Ukrainian brigades and integrating fires to support maneuver.

Kateryna Stepanenko at the Institute

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My estimate is about 100,000. It’s going to be havoc, you can’t just think about the direct impact of the shaking, you must also think about what will follow the shaking. There will be looting, fires, epidemics. It’s going to be terrible.

Celal Sengor

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This process can be triggered by a battery overheating, being punctured, or an electrical fault like a short circuit, in cases where fires occur spontaneously while charging, it is likely due to manufacturing defects.

Dylan Khoo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are facing dangerous positive feedback between climate and boreal fires, heatwaves and droughts are likely to occur more frequently over the boreal region, and the frequency and intensity of extreme wildfires like those in 2021 are likely to increase, with the release of CO2 emissions in turn leading to further global warming.

Bo Zheng

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

Patrick Rothfuss

added by JokerGem
1 year ago

We can’t say we’re going to get a lot of fires this year, because we simply don’t know, what we can point to is we can see that the conditions for large destructive fires are going to be there and we have to be prepared when that happens, because we don’t know when or where the fire is going to be.

Issac Sanchez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Fortunately, nobody has been injured by these shootings, but every time someone fires a gun into a home or business, there is a potential for tragedy. Our detectives are working overtime to track down the offender or offenders and hold them responsible.

Harold Medina

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s been a very challenging year at the fire department. There’s been a number of fatalities. A number of high-profile fires. Obviously, we had the mass shooting at Topps on 5/14 and we’re coming off the challenge of a worldwide pandemic as well.

Buffalo Fire Commissioner William Renaldo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If we get those big offshore wind events in Southern California like the Santa Anas, the Diablo winds in Northern California, those could lead to bigger fires.

Craig Clements

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When people talk about this, they're often talking about the acreage burned and actually not only does it not tell the whole story, but it arguably doesn't tell most of what's important about why we care about wildfires in a societal context, just because the acreage burned has been less than in recent years, the impacts of these fires have actually still been really high.

Daniel Swain

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While climate change has its fingerprints all over these larger fires, it's day-to-day weather that drives fire behavior.

Jon Heggie

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Pakistan is living through one of the most serious climate catastrophes of the world, we are at this point ground zero of the front line of extreme weather events, which we have seen from early this year from an unrelenting cascade of heat waves, forest fires, flash floods, multiple glacier lake outburst events and now the monster monsoon of the decade.

Sherry Rehman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You're walking, it's 1:30 at night, you get something hit in the back, there's mayhem all over because apparently the person was firing shots everywhere, and it was just kind of mayhem from my client's perspective, he turns around, he sees the guy( Middleton) they engage and, boom, he fires a round, which happened to hit him.

Joey Jackson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The technologies we are developing to de-extinct the thylacine all have immediate conservation benefits -- right now -- to protect marsupial species. Biobanks of frozen tissue from living marsupial populations have been collected to protect against extinction from fires, however, we still lack the technology to take that tissue -- create marsupial stem cells -- and then turn those cells into a living animal. That is the technology we will develop as a part of this project.

Andrew Pask

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.

Samuel Adams

added by Normando
1 year ago

How can it add flames to inflation fires right now if you're paying down debt.

Joe Manchin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I like to say the amyloid is like the match, and the tangles are like brush fires that propagate and spread over decades, and along the way you're triggering big forest fires, that's neuroinflammation.

Rudy Tanzi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Also, as a result of the scattering of munitions and their fragments, fires occurred in open areas in the city.

Vitaly Kim

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

A lot of our fires are from lightning.

Erin Billings

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Americans deserve to have their leaders treat disruptions in our food system – from foreign interference to fires to shortages – with concern.

South Dakota

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It’s something that has to be done, so we’re just all going to have to pay for it. Either that or we’re going to end up with more fires.

Tom Sullivan

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

To have something like this challenge, I think, just fires you up more competitively, you want to get it done for them.

Josef Newgarden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Discuss these sample sentences with the community:

0 Comments

    Are we missing a good definition for fires? Don't keep it to yourself...

    Word of the Day

    Would you like us to send you a FREE new word definition delivered to your inbox daily?

    Please enter your email address:



    Free, no signup required:

    Add to Chrome

    Get instant definitions for any word that hits you anywhere on the web!

    Free, no signup required:

    Add to Firefox

    Get instant definitions for any word that hits you anywhere on the web!

    Browse Definitions.net

    Quiz

    Are you a words master?

    »
    heighten or intensify
    A condemn
    B inspire
    C interrupt
    D demolish