Sentence examples for back fires from inspiring English sources
Bitter complaints like these could be heard across the Athens region on Monday as authorities, blaming extreme weather conditions, scrambled to exploit brief lulls in high winds to beat back fires that had threatened the capital for three days.
— Firefighters used bulldozers and back fires to try to block a raging wildfire here Wednesday as thousands of people flowed out of this eastern Arizona town but others dug in as the second-largest fire in the state's history surged toward them.
Gharabaghi (2011) argued that control should not be an approach in organizations that deal with children, as it is a temporary solution that makes children cooperative pro tem, but which back fires in the long term.
Firefighters are also setting back fires to get ahead of out-of-control flames and burn out their fuel.
Back fires have higher fire intensities than head fires [ 20].
Occasionally, when there were fewer people in an area, the firebreak would be made in a straight line further away from the fire front, and back fires would be lit to burn the vegetation between the firebreak and fire front.
"Ted came back fired up," Eason Jordan remembers.
Mrs. Keckley: Just the sound of a car back firing.
Big windows overlooked the neighbors' back fire escapes.
And today our auto industry is back, firing on all cylinders.
