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
The terror began when one of the 100 elephants in the procession stepped on some live coals dropped by accident from a torch.
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
Nhamo filled one of the pots with live coals and perched it in a pool of water at the bottom of the boat.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
