Sentence examples for unchecked fire from inspiring English sources

Defying a 7 p.m. curfew, antagonists battled there into the night, lit by an unchecked fire that consumed a nearby office building.

A reporter from the Kenyan Nation newspaper claimed that the fire burnt unchecked for two hours before emergency services reached the scene.

The day is ours!" Within minutes both ships were tangled together, fire spreading unchecked throughout the vessels.

Even as order in the streets broke down, especially at the gates, and the fire raged unchecked, Monday marked the beginning of organised action.

On a sizzling August morning, as flames burned unchecked down the road, fire crews milled about at an Angeles Crest Highway ranger station.

The police were not the only ones in difficulty — some fires went unchecked for hours after firefighters were attacked or had their hoses slashed and had to retreat.

But Centralia's is just one of dozens of fires that smolder unchecked in old mines and coal seams around the country.

The first big example drew a national audience when the National Park Service let the Yellowstone fire of 1988 burn unchecked.

But the worst news for biblical gift-buyers came this week, from Dutch ecologists studying populations of Boswellia in Ethiopia, who warned that numbers of the frankincense-producing tree could halve in the next 15 years and eventually cease altogether if factors such as fire, grazing and insect attack go unchecked.

It's something of a grand irony, then, that Zuckerberg failed to grasp the lesson for the longest time, letting the eviscerating fire of fake news rage on unchecked until the inferno was licking at the seat of his own power.

Yes, Charney was fired – but he ran the company unchecked for years and certainly doesn't seem to be hurting financially.