Sentence examples for takes fire from inspiring English sources

Warburton's conscientious account takes fire with the arrival at the school of another teacher, Roy Christy, and his wife, Elizabeth.

It takes fire engines 30 seconds longer on average to respond to medical emergencies in the six New York City neighborhoods where engine companies were closed last spring, opponents of the closings said yesterday.

Her book, beautifully written throughout, takes fire in the Antarctic chapters, where irresistible forces converge -- the story of the expedition itself, Cherry's account and her own powers of description.

Suddenly the poem takes fire from the defiant sweep of this clerk's imagination, and his claim for justice: It's a naked child against a hungry wolf; It's playing bowls upon a splitting wreck; It's walking on a string across a gulf With the millstones fore-and-aft about your neck; But the thing is daily done by many and many a one; And we fall, face forward, fighting, on the deck.

Flash point is the lowest temperature at which the oil's vapor in contact with air and as exposed to an ignition takes fire at a moment and then rapidly extinguishes.

One out of every three flights over the city of Sangin, Afghanistan, takes fire, my Marine escort Lieutenant Parry mentioned as we dove onto the landing zone in a cyclone of yellow canister smoke.

"Taking fire from the southeast," he said.

"We began taking fire," she said.

Two army helicopters hovered nearby, taking fire.

The pit took fire after the explosion.

They were taking fire from three sides.