ember
Example Sentences
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The ember cast transformed what started as a wildfire into a full-blown urban conflagration.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025
India Today magazine called the film a "dead ember".
From BBC • Jun. 25, 2025
Some residents in Rainham believe an ember from the fires on Arnolds Field might have started that blaze.
From BBC • Mar. 14, 2025
‘We could have used a hundred fire engines by then. You already had ember casts reaching blocks ahead of the fire.’
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2025
Rumsey closed with an appeal for nurturing the artistic temperament in young and old alike, “to stoke that Apollonian ember in all mortal beings.”
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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