Sentence examples for stoking a fire from inspiring English sources

We staked our tents and began stoking a fire in an old fire pit.

They are building products that change the way we live, and at #BUILTBYGIRLS we're stoking a fire under tomorrow's founders.

Neighbors of the Bel-Air couple, like writer Salli Stevenson, who was then a girl of 12, recall seeing Scott in his yard stoking a fire in the incinerator that gave off a terrible smell.

It was as if Martin had stoked a fire.

Past a detachment of bodyguards, in the open kitchen of an adjacent farmhouse, guerrilla cooks stoked a fire to prepare the evening meal.

In retaliation, the police said, Cantanhede was set upon by at least four of Abreu's friends, whose bleakest impulses were fueled by alcohol, drugs and a crowd that stoked the violence the way wind stokes a fire.

By refusing to stoke a fire from which hotheads would benefit, the moral high ground was held in this case.The fact is that using the law to stop all extremists engaging in inflammatory incitements is impractical, if not impossible.

Toronto is another story, however: In the last two years Weinstein used that festival to stoke a fire under both "The Artist" and "The King's Speech," each of which went on to win the top Oscar.

The others, all New Hampshire residents -- David Taylor of Littleton, Henry Sanders of Hancock and his brother Richard of Peterborough -- had arrived earlier, stoked a fire in the cabin's huge cast iron woodstove and gone in quest of deer.

Again, you have to ditch the old mindset that a significant and multi-channel response just stokes a fire or brings it to the attention of people who hadn't heard it yet; your new goal should be that whichever network or channel a consumer or customer chooses to get information on the situation, they will see your response.

Robert stacked wood in the kiln and began to stoke a fire.