"fire" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It was a stubborn fire that for the first few hours burned in many places, and it was being investigated as suspicious.
- The Canadian team, Safety Boss, used dry chemicals on stubborn fires, said Brian McCutcheon, a spokesman for the company in Calgary.
- Small, stubborn fires continued to burn, fueled by residual gasoline and oil in tangled lines and equipment.
- Mr. Mulligan said it was "a very stubborn fire" that sent flames 1,000 feet into the air and was visible in Queens, Manhattan and Brooklyn.
- A soggy cloud of hopelessness enveloped her, almost dampening the stubborn fire that was keeping her going.
- Smoky, stubborn fire.
- High winds, tinder-dry underbrush and drought produced the stubborn fires that took weeks to contain.
- They also used blasts to extinguish stubborn fires in gas wells, and to generate powerful shock waves that helped geologists learn more about the earth's crust and mantle.
- Elsewhere, whole battalions now engaged the more stubborn fires instead of invaders.
- Firefighters were trying yesterday to contain a stubborn fire that burned an estimated 800 acres of Ocean County woodlands, officials said.
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