Sentence examples for serving as a fire from inspiring English sources

After the War, Walter was Federal civil employee, serving as a fire fighter at Miramar Naval Air Base in San Diego for over 30 years.

While his family moved back to Oakland, he began serving as a fire control officer on the Idaho.

On top of Desolation Peak sits a fire tower where famed Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac (On the Road, The Dharma Bums) lived for a summer while serving as a fire lookout.

The music was composed while Shostakovich was serving as a fire-fighter during the early months of the seige of Leningrad.

The console resembled a telephone and served as a fire radio.

He himself has built a stone walkway around his house, which serves as a fire break.

Even so, if a bird flu epidemic does start in China, Hong Kong could also serve as a fire wall, or at least slow down the spread of the virus.

Representative Thomas M. Davis III of Virginia, head of the National Republican Congressional Committee, said Republicans would take a half-dozen Democratic seats that would serve as a "fire wall" against Democratic victories elsewhere.

During his firefighting career he served as a fire fighter in the busiest fire station in the Bronx and as a fire officer in the busiest fire station in Harlem.

The one good thing we can say about the election of Donald Trump ― to borrow an image from Thomas Jefferson ― is this: it ought to serve as a fire bell in the night.

Christmas tree lights are manufactured with lead, which serves as a fire-retardant.