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live coals

noun as in embers

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Nhamo filled one of the pots with live coals and perched it in a pool of water at the bottom of the boat.

Even then, be aware that many house fires have started because people have shoveled what they thought were cold coals into bags or boxes that they left inside, only to discover after the fire started that some live coals must have been in the mix.

He wheeled a Weber grill into the alley for some unsanctioned cooking over live coals.

It doesn’t take much imagination to know that something cooked over live coals or seared in hot oil will taste more interesting than the same thing cooked in water.

She set them in a pit in the middle of the fire and heaped live coals around the balled mound of mud.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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