Sentence examples for makeshift fire from inspiring English sources

Next to a column on the second floor were the ashes of a makeshift fire that the attackers had made to heat water for tea.

Two days later, thousands of protesters once again thronged the centre of Port-au-Prince, the capital, dancing around a makeshift fire, bellowing voodoo chants and playing drums and trumpets, before police dispersed them with tear-gas.

It is bare inside except for a mat on which she sleeps, her makeshift fire and a paper bag full of dried black beans which she will cook at midday for the communal meal when the children break from school.

Later, on Santa Catalina – a pedestrianised islet connected to Providencia by a 300-foot floating orange and yellow promenade known as "Lovers' Bridge" – we built a makeshift fire on a deserted beach and barbecued our catch, which we served up with fresh plantain stuffed with cheese.

The sand was poured into burlap bags made surreptitiously from Red Cross parcel wrappings then passed rapidly along a makeshift fire brigade line through the building and up into the attic.

Groups of women huddled around makeshift fires on a wet mud-lane, surrounded by partially constructed houses on both sides, in Mahavir Enclave Part II in Delhi.

It was a cold day for Selma, Alabama, close to freezing, and as the sun disappeared they gathered to warm their hands over makeshift fires.

Protesters crawl out from the tents they have pitched on the cobblestones and huddle in the cold around makeshift fires, as volunteers distribute hot tea and soup.

They expect to see a rise in respiratory infections, especially among the young and the old, burn injuries caused by makeshift fires, and chilblains and frostbite among the many whose feet are clad only in plastic flip-flops or sandals.

Behind the stalls selling assault rifles there's a makeshift firing range, where a couple of guys are strolling about smoking cigarettes.

In September of that year, Mr. Tackman was on his way from a detention center in Brooklyn to a courthouse in Manhattan when he used a zip gun to fire makeshift ammunition at two correction officers on the bus.