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Example sentences for "stoked"

Lexicographically close words:
stogy; stoical; stoically; stoicism; stok; stokehold; stokehole; stoken; stoker; stokers
  1. This delirium was further stoked by the apparent disintegration of the Ottoman Empire following the revolution of the Young Turks in 1908.

  2. After a while she blew out the candle, stoked the fire, went up the cold, dark stairs to her bed.

  3. Temperance Crandall whisked off shawl and bonnet, donned an apron, clattered the griddles and stoked the fire preparatory to getting supper.

  4. When he had stoked up his pipe he leaned back and opened the book.

  5. He stoked that rusty firebox until by the time he had cooked and eaten breakfast it was glowing red.

  6. The west wall still held, and between glances at it we stoked the monkey-stove.

  7. In the middle of the room the big heating stove, stoked with coal, grew red hot as the wind howled and whistled down the chimney and the snow lashed against the windows of the old log house.

  8. He stoked the sheet-iron camp stove, put the potatoes to boil, cut chops enough for two and laid the table with the steel knives and forks and tin plates.

  9. Dick still clasped the iron make-shift tiller in his hand, and looked wearily for the central passage, while Johnnie now and again stoked his furnace and looked mechanically to the indicator and the water-gauge.

  10. A few minutes later the remains of the breakfast had been cleared away, and while the trio smoked their pipes and chatted, Johnnie stoked the furnace, throwing coal upon it till a column of smoke issued from the funnel.

  11. The fireman stoked vigorously, the two sack sewers resumed their posts on the sacking platform, putting on the goggles that kept the chaff from their eyes.

  12. He set his teeth and, throwing open the fire-door, stoked vigorously for a few moments.

  13. Yet the inexorable gong rang out its warnings just the same, and when the number of the door to be stoked slipped into place on the dial, the particular stretch of glowing coals commanded by that aperture had to be fed willy-nilly.

  14. Hitherto the horizontal engine has been considered by some firemen to be less handy of access than the vertical, and the vertical engine has had the undoubted disadvantage of not being stoked from the footplate.

  15. The man looked at him as though stoked to blowing-off point with curiosity.

  16. Poor Tom; he knowed it was a-comin' to that, and he told me all about it; for I stoked him.

  17. This hatred of the Staff was stoked high by the fires of passion and despair.


  18. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stoked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.