hearth

Example Sentences

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In an age when every middle-class household could afford a few hearth gods, the superior collector consummated his passion for beauty against the “prevailing winds of progress, fashion, democracy, money, and modernity.”

From The Wall Street Journal

It was also the sound of the latest attempt to revive the smoldering embers of the electronic hearth and save linear television.

From Los Angeles Times

Especially for the religious right, which most Republicans are aligned with, the goal is getting women out of the dirty business of politics, so they can focus their energies on tending home and hearth.

From Salon

A fully intact hearth and mantle can fetch 100 times that.

From Los Angeles Times

The fireplace in her sitting room is her only source of heating, but she also uses that hearth to cook food in cast iron pots.

From BBC