stoked

Example Sentences

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Stoked by ferocious winds, the fire quickly spread, soon engulfing more than 3,000 acres in that upscale community.

From BBC • Jan. 8, 2025

Stoked by the Summer of Love counterculture, longhair hippie sit-ins, Vietnam and other protests, that little circle with an upside-down tree was everywhere.

From Washington Post • Oct. 28, 2022

Stoked by extreme drought, dry vegetation and gusty winds, it was burning more rapidly and behaving more erratically than even veteran firefighters could recall ever seeing.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2021

Stoked by the virulent delta variant and continued vaccine hesitancy, cases of COVID-19 are spiking once again.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 26, 2021

Stoked locomotives and stationeries, agricultural and manufactories, and printing offices, and been down in the engine-rooms of steamers; and that last’s about the hottest and worst of all.

From Adventures of Working Men From the Notebook of a Working Surgeon by Fenn, George Manville