"fire" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- A fire completely obliterated the church in 1932, but the church was financed, and recovery was quick.
- The wiring for that first chamber came from upstairs; and the fire had obliterated it.
- That way, if diseases, fires, or hurricanes obliterate the Nihoa population, the population can be revived by transplanting some from Laysan.
- Notice how the fire obliterates all traces of Charles Darnay's dead uncle: a stone face that resembles his is obscured, "as if it were the face of the cruel Marquis, burning at the stake."
- But 20 years earlier, in the heart of World War II, in the very hour when the fires of Auschwitz were obliterating the Jews of Europe, a misplaced pacifist zeal had led him to a position acutely grotesque for a Jewish leader.
- The only possible way in which he could obliterate all traces of his crime was to have a fire of sufficient proportions to obliterate those traces.
- Behind him, outside the windows, the fire above the thrashing cinderbuds obliterated the black clouds of smoke; the heat was something physical, a pressure on the skin and eyes.
- Either they had fled at the approaching doom of the city and were buried elsewhere, or some strange fire or other force of nature had consumed and obliterated them.
- During the middle of the 19th century, three fires almost obliterated the village.
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