Sentence examples for take a fire from inspiring English sources

"You could take a fire hose to this sand and you'd never flood it".

In one case, plant workers are said to have broken through a security fence to take a fire truck to unit 1 so it could pump water to cool the reactor.

In 2004, emergency managers at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico advised employees to take a fire extinguisher course after twigs, leaves and weeds from rats' nests caused fires in two new trucks.

It must not take a fire, like the one that devastated the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, to convince us of the importance of protecting it, restoring it and giving it new life.

The simple thing to say now the election is finally done and dusted is Malcolm Turnbull's two major objectives in the recent poll: to emerge from winter on the hustings with a clear personal mandate, and to take a fire hose to the Mos Eisley Cantina in the Senate, have backfired, and badly.

"It would take a fire to get rid of the forms," Collins retorted, but he told his staff to start destroying evidence, he later told IGI's outside investigators.

On Tuesday at the Atlanta Athletic Club, during the practice rounds for the P.G.A. Championship, Williams was not receiving much sympathy from Woods's peers, who clearly believe that part of the caddie code is to take a firing privately.

Another option would be to take a fire-steel, which, if handled properly, can start thousands of fires, even when wet. Practice starting a fire with a variety of materials.

Meanwhile, Mervyn King didn't just rain on Brown's parade, he took a fire hose to it.

It took a fire at Oxford Circus station in November 1984 to extend that ban to all sub-surface areas on the Underground network.

In 1911, it took a fire to wake us up.