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How to use fireplace in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Fireplace means an open hearth for holding a fire at the base of a chimney. Example: “Ash from a fireplace can restore minerals to your garden's soil.”

More sentences with fireplace

  • Ash from a fireplace can restore minerals to your garden's soil.From the entry ash
  • He usually lights a nice fire in the fireplace to kick off a winter weekend right.From the entry lights
  • If you two are cold, you can cosy up by the fireplace.From the entry cosy up
  • Please do not overstoke the fireplace, and do not burn it without the firescreen in position.From the entry overstoke
  • There was a picture hanging above the fireplace.From the entry picture
  • He burned his manuscript in the fireplace.From the entry burn
  • We dumped the coal onto the fireplace.From the entry dump
  • There was a small broom for sweeping ash kept in the nook between the fireplace bricks and the wall.From the entry nook
  • She shivered until she got to the cozy fireplace, where she could bask in the heat coming off it.From the entry bask
  • The draft of a chimney due to a fire in a fireplace, and the rising of smoke particles from a fire, are due to free convection.From the entry free convection
  • Fairlands turned sadly from the fireplace and walked slowly to the window.2017, Martin Edwards, Crimson Snow: Winter Mysteries, Sourcebooks, Inc., →ISBN. From the entry black Christmas
  • A hundred-year-old shop, complete with stone mantel and wood-burning fireplace, was out of a dream.2012, Jill Kargman, The Rock Star in Seat 3A, William Morrow, →ISBN, page 176. From the entry Hogwartsian
  • The Aussie skolled his beer, threw the Kiwi into the fireplace, and shot him.2011, Richard Plant, Life's a Blur. From the entry skol
  • Multiface fireplaces are also popular; they include the see-through fireplace, the corner fireplace, and the freestanding fireplace.2007, Andy Pressman, Charles George Ramsey, Architectural Graphic Standards, page 313. From the entry multiface
  • The fireplace is currently painted fire engine red with a high gloss finish.2006, Mi-Ling Stone Poole, Ask Mi-ling!: When You Want the Truth About Decorating, page 2. From the entry fire engine red
  • The keeping room, with its large, open-hearth fireplace, served as her kitchen and main living area.2004, Carla Neggers, Night Scents, page 10. From the entry keeping room
  • My living room is what you'd expect, hardwood floors, simple grassy-brown furniture, oversized television, a fireplace.2004, David Ellis, Life Sentence, page 140. From the entry bachelorize
  • And grandmother sat in her rocker before the fireplace, deaf as a doorpost and half-blind as well.2003, David Farland, The Lair of Bones, Macmillan, page 203. From the entry deaf as a doorpost
  • There were waiting lists for baths, doorknobs, imported hardwoods, antiqued fireplaces, bidets, marble slabs.2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 3. From the entry at a premium
  • She strode to the fireplace and examined a lidded crystal vase on the overmantel.1992, Alasdair Gray, Poor Things, Bloomsbury, published 2002, page 191. From the entry overmantel
  • Behind the fireplace is a catwalklike passage with a gridded handrail.1990, Architectural Digest, volume 47, page 209. From the entry catwalklike
  • As always, there was a fizzing, popping blaze of pine and sappy apple logs in the fireplace.1976, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 8, in Slapstick, Delacorte Press, page 61. From the entry sappy
  • Many of the later style fireplaces, most especially of the better class, showed firebacks.1912, Mary Harrod Northend, Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings, Little, Brown, and Company, page 72. From the entry fireback
  • In the great old-fashioned fireplace behind the high iron dogs a log-fire crackled and snapped.1902, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles. From the entry dog
  • There were densely tenanted houses on the main road, pigsties hugger-mugger with people, fireplace ashes thrown out at night.2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, in The Guardian. From the entry hugger-mugger
  • There’s even a fireplace on the wall.2018 September 30, Peter D. Kramer, “50 seats only: Tiny concerts, big names”, in The Journal News, volume 130, number 148, page 6C…. From the entry living-roomy
  • From the fireplace, Erlya muttered an alarmed curse.2013, Doranna Durgin, Barrenlands: A Changespell Saga Prologue, Tijeras, N.M.: Blue Hound Visions, →ISBN. From the entry witchie
  • She stood with her back to the fireplace, looking very ungrandmotherly in her tailored slacks and silk sweater.2007, Linda Lael Miller, The McKettrick Way, Silhouette Books, →ISBN, page 241. From the entry ungrandmotherly
  • The frunchroom even had a working fireplace in it.2005, Tristram Hoosier, “Deer Camp”, in I'm Not Touching You!, →ISBN, page 74. From the entry frunchroom
  • This arrangement gives the best view of the fire, but space considerations may dictate building seating along the fireplace wall instead.2000, Judith Knuth, edited by Paula Marshall, Fireplace Decorating & Planning Ideas, Des Moines, Iowa: Better Homes and Gardens Books…. From the entry inglenook
  • The chimney, built in brickwork, was to be plastered on the inside several feet from where the fireplace was to be.1995, Fred Archer, “Sapper, a Master Plasterer”, in The Cuckoo Pen: Tales of English Village Life Between the Wars, Stroud…. From the entry brickwork
  • But overfiring the stove or fireplace – building a large, hot fire – can also produce very high temperatures.1987 September, Citizens’ Committee for Fire Protection, International Society of Fire Service Instructors, Alternative Heater Fires: A…. From the entry overfire
  • “It might have been a nice fireplace once,” Caroline drummed her nails on the Duluxed mantel, “only you can't tell.1986, James Phillip McAuley, Quadrant, volume 30, page 92. From the entry Dulux
  • A brick fireplace sat dark at one end.1986, Richard Mueller, Jernigan's Egg, page 128. From the entry bumblebird
  • Open only in winter, La Cave has a rôtisserie where you can dine and dance by the fireplace.1984, Darwin Porter, Frommer’s Dollarwise Guide to Switzerland & Liechtenstein, →ISBN, page 200. From the entry rôtisserie
  • All accommodations have private baths, and most have fireplaces.1982, Charles C. Miller, Jacqueline Killeen, Rachel Bard, Roy Killeen, Country Inns of the Far West, 101 Productions, →ISBN, page 260. From the entry ultradeluxe
  • The wall was crowned with 44 towers, some over 70 feet, with portculisses, supply rooms, fireplaces and ladders.1968, Peter Ratazzi, In Strangest Europe: A Cabinet of Curiosities, Rarities and Monsters, London: The Mitre Press, →ISBN, page 252. From the entry portculis
  • Beyond the living room is a “glassery” or sun-parlor with heavily beamed ceiling and a rugged stone fireplace.1922, Architectural Record - Volume 52, page 92. From the entry glassery
  • This here's a mountain fireplace, sartin sure.1910, Edward Marshall, Charles T. Dazey, In Old Kentucky. From the entry sartin
  • Notice the bronze hands over the fireplace.1909, Theodore L. Flood, The Chautauquan - Volumes 53-54 - Page 55. From the entry behand

Meaning of fireplace

  1. noun An open hearth for holding a fire at the base of a chimney.

Full definition of fireplace

Questions about fireplace in a sentence

How do you use fireplace in a sentence?
Fireplace is used as a noun. For example: “Ash from a fireplace can restore minerals to your garden's soil.”
What is a short sentence with fireplace?
“He burned his manuscript in the fireplace.”
What does fireplace mean?
Fireplace means an open hearth for holding a fire at the base of a chimney.

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