put on the fire

Example Sentences

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“Every engine that we could put on the fire is on the fire right now, and more are coming,” he said.

From The Guardian • Nov. 8, 2018

The North Koreans had had their kettle knocked off the stove in the south, but in the center and east they had other pots to put on the fire.

From Time Magazine Archive

Meanwhile other Catholics zealously stirred the still cold pot of a Congressional investigation of Mexican "religious persecutions" which Senator Borah had put on the fire in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then we ordered two bottles of ale and had some fat wood put on the fire, and watched it roar and sputter with flame as only fat wood can.

From We Three by Hutt, Henry

When our potatoes were cooked we gave him the utensil, which he filled with water and put on the fire before he went for his potatoes.

From The Bright Side of Prison Life Experience, In Prison and Out, of an Involuntary Soujouner in Rebellion by Swiggett, Samuel A.