Sentence examples for fire at hand from inspiring English sources

Always have a means to extinguish a charcoal fire at hand when cooking outdoors.

Although we had no fire extinguisher at hand, the fire burned itself out within five minutes.

Because it is often easiest to board a vessel from the stern, where the wake provides relatively calm water for a pirate boat, crews in piracy-prone waters have also for many years sprayed water from fire hoses down the stern and kept fire axes at hand to sever any grappling hooks used by the pirates.

The sine qua non of poetry is poetry, that form of theoretical synthesis which we have defined above; the spark of poetical genius without which all the rest is mere fuel, not burning because no fire is at hand to light it.

The Christian Science Monitor advised to read the novels with an A Song of Ice and Fire encyclopedia at hand to "catch all the layered, subtle hints and details that [Martin] leaves throughout his books.

In the meantime soak the area with water or keep a fire extinguisher at hand.

American soldiers who were skilled at trap shooting were armed with these guns and stationed where they could fire at enemy hand grenades in midair.

Israeli and Palestinian officials expressed optimism on Tuesday that, despite remaining disagreements, a cease-fire was at hand.

These are some solutions, or "escape fires," already at hand, and many more could be implemented around the country.

And even for those who care not a whit about Kubrick or "The Shining" but who have a taste for a different type of horror — the postmortem and postmodern horrors of the sort the poet John Shade endured in the novel "Pale Fire" at the hands of one who searched for elusive meanings in Shade's work — will find much to delight here.

Israel pulled out of Gaza four years ago, only to be attacked by nonstop rocket fire at the hands of Hamas.