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Example sentences for "forest fire"

  • He can't move, and a forest fire's about the most terrible thing in the world.

  • Jove, I believe it is a forest fire," cried Bud Weir.

  • Father and I thought first it was a forest fire.

  • Well, the boy had wanted to look upon just such a sight, so that he could say he had been caught in a forest fire; and from the way things were turning out, his wish was in a fair way to be gratified.

  • I'll sure never forget the time I had; but then I hope none of you will ever have to hunt for a stream, or that you'll even see a forest fire when up here, no matter how much Giraffe wants to look on one.

  • I have always wanted to see a forest fire; it must be a grand sight.

  • It's pretty hard to describe a forest fire, but it was a very exciting experience.

  • I was in a forest fire once," said Mr. Allen.

  • A forest fire," he thought, "a forest fire!

  • Way back in his camping days he had learned the best way of fighting a forest fire, and now he put his knowledge to account.

  • As one grizzled old fellow remarked, "Thar ain't many folks as can say they've come through a forest fire as easy as you did, son.

  • In imagination Frank pictured his agony of mind if he had to tell Violet that her twin brother had perished miserably in a forest fire, while he escaped.

  • Not to speak of the damage done, it must be mighty unpleasant to be caught in a forest fire.

  • There's nothing on this earth as unpredictable as a forest fire.

  • A forest fire at this time could really complicate my problem.

  • But if you ever had had the misfortune to see a forest fire at first hand, you'd understand that it's out of the question.

  • You're going to find, General, that a forest fire can be as diabolical and treacherous as any human enemy you ever fought.

  • If we are going to be in the woods as long as we have planned, we ought to know how to build a fire that will not start a forest fire.

  • Have you ever built a fire in the woods according to the approved method, which eliminates all possibility of starting a forest fire?

  • All danger of forest fire was at once removed, and Snowbird was no longer needed as a lookout on old Bald Mountain.

  • Cranston was at his old trade,--setting a forest fire.

  • You see, Dan," Lennox said in explanation, "the government loses thousands of dollars every year by forest fire.

  • I came upon a grizzly on the heights above the timber-line watching the progress of a forest fire.

  • In going over an area just swept by a forest fire I saw two grizzlies feasting, and there were feasts for numerous others.

  • One of these grizzlies had perished in a forest fire, another in a desert flood, one was killed at the foot of a cliff by a falling stone, and another was crushed in a snow-slide.

  • The experience of that year led to the enactment of a forest fire law, but without any agency to make it effective.

  • The definite result of that meeting was the inauguration of forest fire legislation in the various provinces.

  • Probably they were the ruins of yellow pine trees that before my day had perished in a forest fire.

  • Once, while watching a forest fire, I climbed a mountain to a point above the tree-line in order to reach a safe and commanding spot from which to view the flames on a near-by slope.

  • Whereas he would have been furious had a mere tourist exclaimed about the beauty of a forest fire, which to him had always seemed a terrible thing.

  • A forest fire is a tremendous problem, once the conflagration attains any size.

  • There's a forest fire started, down the mountain," he told them harshly.

  • Not the least awe-inspiring feature of a forest fire in the mountains is the mighty booming of the great trunks as they fall.

  • The man was smoking a pipe and it kind of smelled like a forest fire.

  • It smelled like a forest fire and a gas engine put together, kind of.

  • It said that a forest fire seemed to have driven new species towards the settlers.

  • Can't you just imagine how those protected, over-civilized settlers acted when faced with a forest fire?

  • They steamed when they hit, and if it hadn't been for the earlier rain they would have been faced with a forest fire as well.

  • His breath was like the smoky breath of a forest fire.

  • There was an odour of a forest fire, and it, too, softened its unpleasant, malignant bitterness in the dark evening coolness.

  • From the wood, just beyond the town, came the half-pleasant, half-disagreeable odour of a forest fire.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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