live coals
Example Sentences
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He wheeled a Weber grill into the alley for some unsanctioned cooking over live coals.
From New York Times • May 28, 2021
He expressed himself in paint so thick that at times it seems to glow like stained glass, at other times burns against the black outlines like live coals.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many of them wear French peasant costumes; have their shoes peg-nailed by a community shoemaker, his last held between his knees; eat hoe-cakes of home-ground corn meal, baked over live coals on three-legged iron spiders.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is a Monte Pythonesque coiner of clich�s: rubies have a fearless tendency to "glow like live coals," and Frenchmen sputter expletives like "Name of a name!" and "By example!"
From Time Magazine Archive
Her eyes were blazing like live coals and her arms had doubled themselves in length.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
