add fuel
Example Sentences
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March Madness will only add fuel to the fire.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026
“In the near term, this development may add fuel to the rally and further inflate what is already looking increasingly bubblelike.”
From Barron's • Dec. 29, 2025
To add fuel to the barbecue, the deal with Argentina may be all for naught.
From Salon • Nov. 7, 2025
Lower courts have blocked the deployment there thus far, with an appeals court saying such a move would "likely to lead to civil unrest" and "only add fuel to the fire".
From BBC • Oct. 17, 2025
I wasn’t about to add fuel to the fire by asking questions about things that I should know, like my mother’s name.
From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia
