Sentence examples for set a bonfire from inspiring English sources

"set a bonfire" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
You could use it when describing a social gathering outdoors or when saying what an activity is during a festival. For example: "On Saturday night, we all gathered together and set a bonfire in the backyard to celebrate the end of summer."

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Revelers overturned a car, set a bonfire in the street and pelted police cars with rocks and bottles, officials said.

The local news reported that hundreds of students at North Carolina "waited in the streets in front of telegraph offices and cafes" for news about the game and after the victory students "went wild" and set a bonfire on the athletic field.

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Fans stormed the field after the victory, carting off the goalposts, ripping off one player's jersey and setting a bonfire in the bleachers.

Wonderland is set over a Bonfire Night weekend and mostly concerns the struggles of three sisters to make human connections in a dislocating city.

We shuffle in a heat-induced daze from the spotless, empty white beach to kayaks for slow paddles along the shore, to deckchairs set around a bonfire on the beach at sundown, to a table laid with white tablecloth under a sky thick with stars.

"When people found out about me, they set up a bonfire and burned my effigies in it". .

For good measure, they also set up a bonfire and danced around it while chanting and banging on metal posts.

But rather than drive off on honeymoon they row a boat out to set a torch to the 10m-high bonfire that blazes into the night.

LAST summer, I attended a wedding in a village in southwest France where a paella for 60 was made in a pan four feet wide set over a bonfire and stirred with a paddle.

An effigy of Scotland's first minister, Alex Salmond, has been set alight at a bonfire parade in Sussex.

Unlike its predecessor, it's an open-world game: After choosing your character's class, gender, and appearance (and clearing out a brief tutorial dungeon), you're dropped into the wilds of a fantasy setting next to a bonfire.

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