hearth

Example Sentences

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“Just as families gathered around the hearth in the 19th century, they now gathered around the radio,” says Robert C. Allen, distinguished professor emeritus of American studies at the University of North Carolina.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026

From repeatedly whacking steel with a heavy hammer to sitting sweat-drenched by a hearth for hours, the daily grind of blademaking is also not for the faint-hearted.

From Barron's • Feb. 11, 2026

The kit will talk users through the process with voice instructions as well as checking the person's hearth rhythm to determine whether a shock is needed.

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2025

Television has long been referred to as the electronic hearth, but the yule log’s ubiquity in the streaming era shifts that notion into oddly literal territory.

From Salon • Dec. 18, 2025

Next day, by noon, I was up and dressed, and sat wrapped in a shawl by the nursery hearth.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë