Sentence examples for put out fire from inspiring English sources

It was like discovering that water could put out fire.

"I'll often even put out fire tools and a log basket, so that it all looks real".

Just a week ago, he had spoken to her about the pointlessness of using fire to put out fire, of how it "worsens rather than extinguishes the original flame".

In contrast to Mr. Ben-Eliezer, Mr. Peres, who shared a Nobel Prize for peacemaking with Yasir Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin, says, "We cannot put out fire with fire".

The ability to put out fire is repeated by Saint Augustine in the fifth century and Isidore of Seville in the seventh century.

Her crew managed to put out fire on her stern, but another blaze amidships blocked all communications between the forward and aft sections of the vessel.

"But you put out fires with people.

He has cleared debris from tracks and put out fires.

Piqué held his side together, racing to put out fires.

I guess I'm not going to put out fires".

It's intermittently in evidence here, as Becca tries amiably to put out fires.