fire-eater

Example Sentences

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Despite his militant posture in recent years, Davis had not been a genuine fire-eater but a “national Democrat” who had hoped to defend southern rights within the Union through control of the Democratic Party.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Here, while working as a bongo drummer in a nightclub, the man who would become known as the "Playboy Peer" met his second wife, Shirin Belly, a Malaysian belly dancer and fire-eater.

From BBC • Sep. 20, 2016

Mr. Kahl’s first wife was the fire-eater in the sideshow; his second runs a gift shop in Coney Island.

From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2013

He has a thin face and when he sings we hear a dark, gravelly rumble of a voice and see more gaps than teeth – a reminder of his years as a fire-eater.

From The Guardian • Jul. 24, 2010

You pass a fire-eater elevated on a striped platform.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern