Sentence examples for a vast fire from inspiring English sources

Five days after a camper cooking hot dogs apparently set off a vast fire that threatened to engulf some of the world's tallest and oldest trees, fire officials appeared close today to overpowering the flames in the most critical area of the blaze.

In 1626, the church was devastated by Swedish army, while in 1644 a vast fire destroyed the roofs and galleries of the Upper Castle.

Go off-season and you can snuggle up by a vast open fire or visit in summer and eat out on the pretty vine-covered terrace.

I sit with Lucy and the villagers into the night, with a vast wood fire the only light for 20 miles.

The old fixtures and fittings remain - polished flagstones, heavy beams, mellow stone walls - as logs crackle on a vast open fire and a blackboard menu scales the wall above.

The vast fire truck collection is the museum's central appeal.

"It would be a huge pity if we decided that by the time we had reached the 200th anniversary of the vast fire which consumed the old Parliament and brought this one in to being we had to abandon this site and look elsewhere in order to serve the public interest properly", Bercow said.

Joint war games between Russia, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan and Tajikistan (the members, along with Belarus and Armenia, of a collective-security pact) are becoming more frequent; Kazakhstan's vast firing ranges offer a perfect setting for mock warfare.Much of the "collective security" was designed to defend the region against the Taliban and its Islamic allies.

Post-rock is a loudly ponderous, insistently serious kind of music: all brooding soundscapes, apocalyptic themes and long, instrumental songs that are fanned into vast fire-fronts of noise.

To most people here this volcano with a vast lake of fire in its belly is a slumbering menace.

The Ava Gardner bedroom has fuchsia and plum velvet drapes, shimmering wallpaper, a vast bed, real fire and floor-to-ceiling windows.