Sentence examples for scattered fires from inspiring English sources

Even so, scattered fires blazed and smoke billowed over the scene for hours, and search-and-rescue teams looked through the rubble for victims into the night.

It went for hours with no intervention from the authorities — suggesting to some at least a degree of government complicity — as opposing sides fought a pitched battle hurling stones and incendiary devices, turning a residential neighborhood into a war zone marked by scattered fires.

The official, Larry E. Hamilton, director of the National Office of Fire and Aviation in Boise, Idaho, said the winds could consolidate scattered fires, posing new dangers to communities like those in Montana's Bitterroot Valley, south of Missoula, whose residents have already been evacuated twice.

Small scattered fires burn and fizz in the water.

The only lights they saw came from the scattered fires around which groups of men were huddled.

"But at the same time, the movement is radicalizing," he said, after reports of masked youths clashing with the police, throwing bottles and setting scattered fires in French cities.

"Despite serious aircraft malfunctions, marginal weather and grave damage to his aircraft from an exploding surface-to-air missile, he placed his armament directly on target, scattering fire and debris," the citation read.

They scattered without firing a shot.

It uses mixed oxides, or mox, which contains a mixture of uranium and plutonium, and can produce a more dangerous radioactive plume if scattered by fire or explosions.

They then scattered rifle fire around the tank, sending plumes of dust rising from the wall of a building just behind it.

A block north, as people scattered, officers fired projectiles at a young man riding a scooter down Fifth Avenue, knocking him to the ground and arresting him.