"fire" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The fire threatened the forward magazine which could not be reached to flood.
- A fire in 1990 damaged but did not threaten the building.
- The fire reached within 220 yards of the plant, but never seriously threatened it.
- The second fire burned three homes and threatened 20 others.
- Since 1992, five large fires have threatened lives and property.
- A fire in the summer of 1947 nearly threatened to burn the entire town.
- Another fire would threaten the housing estate later in the century during 1999.
- As we have seen far too often in recent years, such fires can also threaten human lives and property.
- In 1906 a second fire threatened the community, but was contained to a few buildings and homes.
- The fire threatened to spread to another building, where all the city documents were kept.
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