ember

Example Sentences

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“You could see the embers flying everywhere. It was very chaotic.”

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I asked around and found a fire ecologist who has been studying the McNally fire almost since the embers went out.

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He stayed in his truck outside the affordable senior complex, trying to keep an eye on things: warding off looters, putting out ember flare-ups, responding to flooding when the building’s sprinklers finally burst back on.

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An urban conflagration, which jumps from house to house through explosions of millions of embers, “is more intense than a normal wildland-urban interface fire,” Rohde said.

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It was pitch-dark when he drove out through the tree-lined street, as heavy embers and fiery debris rained down.

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