Sentence examples for glow of a fire from inspiring English sources

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I don't know anyone who isn't drawn in by the smouldering glow of a fire.

Through the windows, the firefighters glimpsed the orange glow of a fire in the dark maw of the night.

As the sun sets, a near total darkness falls over the camp, broken only by the glow of a fire or a solar-powered lamp.

But Welles managed to impart an astoundingly rich physical texture to every scene: the wintry air, the glow of a fire in Justice Shallow's hut, the fullness of the surrounding life appear so natural — the showy camerawork of his youth is mostly gone — that he seems merely to have photographed a world miraculously found.

In ordinary speech the word is apt to be ambiguous; it is frequently used in such a way as to leave uncertain whether the speaker is referring to the process of sensing or to whatever it is that is being sensed (e.g., the apparent painful stimulus, sound of a bell, or red glow of a fire).

So he set out to use this idea to explain all sorts of everyday stuff, such as the glow of a fire, how our lungs work, and why blowing on tea cools it down.

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Ancient anger smolders, like the glow of a peat fire, at the heart of these stories.

At one point, the square was thick with white tear gas, reflecting the orange glow of a car fire while silhouetted youths heaved paving stones at tight formations of armored riot police officers.

Some lines — like these, from Jojo's memory of a story told by Pop — feel overworked: "The dream of her was the glow of a spent fire on a cold night: warm and welcoming.

Whatever your gulliver is, the Scotland Yard won't assault it, and unlike many Scotch drinks, which seem to bloom best by the glow of a wood fire, this one thrives in sunlight.

It hadn't opened for business when a nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania melted down, when 200,000 people gathered in New York City's Battery Park to hear Ralph Nader demand the end of atomic power and Carly Simon sing yearningly about the "comforting glow of a wood fire".

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