Sentence examples for fireplug from inspiring English sources

The title of Bruno Dumont's new film — first shown as a three-hour-plus television miniseries — is the nickname of a taciturn fireplug of a boy in a farm village on the northern coast of France.

"He was a fireplug, balding, fortyish — a Brooklyn man of indeterminate ethnicity," Naparstek said.

This morning, a familiar figure passed my window: a short fireplug of a man making his daily way up the street, at his usual time, shuffling at his always dogged and purposeful pace.

Topham, an English fireplug who was five feet ten and weighed two hundred pounds, could bend iron pokers with his bare hands, roll pewter dishes into cannoli, and win a tug-of-war with a horse.

"Died pissing like a dog on a fireplug.

The extremely tan and perfectly coiffed fireplug who looked as if he'd just climbed off a yacht in the Mediterranean was Mario Andretti.

In his younger days as a fireplug-size professional wrestler, he regularly vanquished opponents who towered over him.

And if the villains are little more than fireplugs in balaclavas, the violence they provoke is satisfyingly vicious.

They are parked close to the curb because they don't want to lose their wing mirrors (although at least one of them already has), but they flout no-parking signs, fireplugs, church and school and hospital entrance regulations, because this is a city where nobody sweats the details.

This was a block jawed American Indian built like 2 fireplugs, sitting in a wheelchair.

The dormant fireplugs had been part of special high-pressure water systems installed a century ago in Manhattan below 34th Street, and in downtown Brooklyn and Coney Island, to enhance the regular water system for effective firefighting in those areas.