Sentence examples for built up the fire from inspiring English sources
He built up the fire just right and hung the pot to boil.
He had built up the fire in the cabin, and settled his boy near it, and gone back out into the snow.
She heated a bowl of soup, built up the fire and huddled over it, while outside the temperature dropped, steadily, hour by hour, until a solitary brown oak leaf detaching itself from the tree fell onto the frost-hard ground with a crackle that echoed through the whole forest".
After the highway patrolmen had left without finding the girl, Pace built up the fire in his wood stove and poured himself a triple shot of Glenmorangie.
And then I'd build up the fire and turn out the lights, all but one, and we'd go to bed.
He got up from the couch to close off the room and build up the fire, then went out to shovel the driveway and take the car down the long, winding community road to the highway and on into Newhouse and the mall.
After a while, he decided to build up the fire in the living room and sit there on the couch and terrify himself with "Dracula"_ — _he was only halfway through, though he'd started it at Halloween — and then maybe he'd drift off for a while till it was time to get up.
IN HUIMIN COUNTY in the Yellow River delta, a push by China to build up the nation's global allure has fired the enthusiasm of local officials.
"I sat and watched the playoffs the last two years and I built up a lot of fire," said Croshere, hand-picked by Coach Larry Bird.
