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Discover LudwigThe phrase "dead fire" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to fire safety, firefighting, or metaphorically to describe something that is no longer active or effective.
Example: "The firefighters confirmed that the dead fire was completely extinguished and posed no further threat to the area."
Alternatives: "extinguished fire" or "inactive fire."
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Oliver's cheeks are bright red and he's staring into the dead fire.
The author returned to the plantation setting with Fogo morto (1943; "Dead Fire"), now considered to be his masterwork.
And 14 firefighters from the three units at 782 Eighth Avenue, at West 48th Street, informally known as the Broadway Firehouse and charged with protecting the theater district, were missing and presumed dead, Fire Chief George Maier said.
There is a hall that houses the dead fire giant kings, and rooms for worship.
Six months later, rather than joining a conversation about workable solutions, Brodsky's column suggests that the crowd at Public Knowledge prefers to fan the cold ashes of a dead fire.
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The grand jury concluded that Buddy Kane, a former Jackson police captain, and Lloyd Jones, a former highway patrolman, both now dead, fired shotguns at Ben Brown after demonstrators at Jackson State University threw rocks at officers.
Moments later, the police said, Mr. Horn, disregarding the operator's pleas to stay inside, confronted the fleeing pair in his front yard and, saying "Move, you're dead," fired three blasts of 00 buckshot from his 12-gauge, striking them in their backs as a plainclothes officer who had just pulled up ducked for cover.
At each study site we collected cross-sections from dead fire-scarred trees to reconstruct fire history and established study plots to characterize forest structure.
At Point Cajetuba he finds a line of dead fire-ants, "an inch or two in height and breadth", washed up on the shore "without interruption for miles".
The ritual purification of the dead by fire may be involved, suggests Card.
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