campfire

Example Sentences

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Dwelling on the songs they had seen performed around campfires, or the tales exchanged from one refugee to another, they decided to do what they do best: facilitate storytelling.

From Washington Post

They’re like forest rangers who are going to a campsite and saying, “Your campfire can only be two feet wide. This campfire is two and a half feet wide. You have to put it out.”

From Scientific American

It feels like a ghost story you hear around the campfire; uncanny and underexplained, but pleasing nevertheless.

From Washington Post

Near one called Life in the Field, amid tents and faux campfires, a soldier slung a helmet and a bulletproof vest over the small frame of a young boy dressed in military fatigues.

From New York Times

“It’s a long time to be exposed to that amount of pollution,” said Hansen, who like others described the smoke as a mixture of a massive campfire tinged with a chemical smell.

From Washington Post