Sentence examples for fire knocked from inspiring English sources

But the fire knocked one of the boat's two engines out of commission.

The fire knocked out the power, destroying the electricity junction box, but that was it.

The fire knocked out power to 12 blocks of the surrounding area, a mix of residential and commercial buildings.

(A 1918 fire knocked it out of action for two seasons, so the Calumet Colosseum in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, built in 1913, also lays claim to the distinction).

Much the same thing happened in August 2010, when a fire knocked out Jamaica signals and stopped trains for a week.

Two months ago, a fire knocked out a 245,000-barrel-a-day refinery in the Bay Area that has still not resumed full production.

Boeing shares closed down 4.7 per cent at $101.87 on Friday after the Heathrow fire, knocking $3.8 billion off the company's market capitalisation.

The Turks caught Alcock on a long-range bombing raid over Suvla Bay, piercing his plane with machine-gun fire, knocking off his port propeller.

"If tenants need something outside the four corners of the lease — for example, a fire knocks out the elevators — a typical landlord would call the insurance company and then call the elevator company and say, 'Just fix it,' " he said.

That was Anthony Suozzo, a general manager of electric operations, asking for four kilovolts; he was dealing with a substation in Westchester County that had just caught fire, knocking out power to more than 1,700 customers.

Eastern grasslands are wet enough for forests, but frequent fires knock down woody vegetation while letting grasses persist, Dr. Johnson said.