Sentence examples for size of a fire from inspiring English sources

The sprinkler is the size of a fire hydrant, and about as attractive.

Perhaps on a dare, two tables have been squeezed into a back garden the size of a fire escape.

The first one, about the size of a fire extinguisher, supplied the experiment with hydrogen gas for a few weeks.

The tank, about the size of a fire extinguisher, became magnetized, then flew through the air at 20 to 30 feet per second and fractured the boy's skull.

"We're also worried about getting an adequate number of resources here to deal with this size of a fire," Mr. Mickel added.

The final match Saturday had 15 rounds, with each competitor shooting twice in each round: metal-tipped arrows launched at a wooden target about the size of a fire hydrant and set in the ground more than 450 feet away.

The predicted global warming over the 21st century is so large (up to 11 degrees Fahrenheit), and the potential effects so serious, that slight overestimates of this warming make little difference -- just as reducing the size of a firing squad from 10 shooters to nine makes little difference to the person being executed.

He said the fire created embers the size of a fist.

Max had half a mind to turn and flee — for what good could come of engaging beasts of that size near a fire of that strength?

The simplest design entails taking a lump of highly enriched uranium, about the size of a cantaloupe, and firing it down a big gun barrel into a second lump.

This is a man clutching a camera the size of a mortar, rapidly firing flashes as bright as the sun into our eyeballs.