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• A feature of many Central Texas prehistoric archeological sites is a low spreading pile of stones called a rock midden. Other features at these sites may include small hearths.From the entry feature
• The supposedly uniconic cult of the public hearth was (and was regarded by the Romans) as archaic.2010, Nathan Rosenstein, Robert Morstein-Marx, editors, A Companion to the Roman Republic, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 231. From the entry uniconic
• He sat on the hearth rug and began prettying the dog's coat.2007, Eric Knight, Lassie Come-Home, →ISBN, page 29. From the entry pretty
• Martha Stewart has turned us all into home and hearth experts.2000, Joel Perry, Funny That Way: Adventures in Fabulousness, Los Angeles, C.A.; New York, N.Y.: Alyson Books, →ISBN, page 164. From the entry deedlee ball
• On the floor in dry parts of the cave, the researchers found two hearths.1992 October 20, Marlise Simons, “Stone Age Art Shows Penguins at Mediterranean”, in New York Times. From the entry pinewood
• A deflated hearth, about 5 m² in area, lay on the northernmost section of the surface concentration.1986, Fred Wendorf, Romuald Schild, Angela E. Close, Late Paleolithic Archaeology, page 365. From the entry deflated
• The priest of the city hearth was called "king", "prytane", or "archon".1962, William Herbert Desmonde, Magic, Myth, and Money. From the entry prytane
• The open hearths of finery and chafery are surmounted each by a huge chimney.1957, H. R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 224. From the entry chafery
• Could see her in the bedroom from the hearth unclamping the busk of her stays.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 8: Laestrygonians]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey]…. From the entry busk
• This priest of the public hearth bore the name of king.1915, Albert Kocourek, John Henry Wigmore, Primitive and Ancient Legal Institutions. From the entry prytane
• Hempseed, touching his forelock, was quietly vacating the seat in the hearth.1905, Emma Orczy, chapter III, in The Scarlet Pimpernel. From the entry touch one's forelock
• The room we were shown had a goodsome hearth.2012, Janet Lee Carey, Dragonswood. From the entry goodsome
• A hot mass of coals glowed firelessly in the hearth.2000, Thomas Wolfe, Arlyn Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli, O Lost: A Story of the Buried Life. From the entry firelessly
• In Haiti, the Rada have come to represent the emotional stability and warmth of Africa, the hearth of the nation.1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 49. From the entry rada
• The green bed was formerly to be found in every farmhouse at the side of the hearth opposite the bread oven.1980, John McCormack, The Guernsey House, page 77. From the entry green-bed
• Haldane sat on the hearth between Owen and the tree.1978, Richard Rhodes, Holy Secrets, Doubleday Books. From the entry groaty
• The great brass andirons on the wide hearth stood like sentinels proclaiming and guarding the dignity of the family.1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter 7, in The House Behind the Cedars. From the entry andiron
• Much as advertisers do today, some railways tried to sell the idea of returning to the hearth and home for a 'traditional' Christmas.2022 December 14, David Turner, “The Edwardian Christmas getaway...”, in RAIL, number 972, page 34. From the entry hearth and home
• Salamander tapping is done at the salamander base, which is the bottom-most level of the liquid pool in a blast furnace hearth.2019, Ian Cameron, Mitren Sukhram, Kyle Lefebvre, Blast Furnace Ironmaking. From the entry salamander
• "She hammocked their plaids between the table and the bed, then edged her way past Kenneth as she approached the central hearth."2013, Mary Jo Putney, Patricia Rice, Susan King, Christmas Roses: Love Blooms in Winter. From the entry hammock
• Granna's rag rug still lay on the floor near the hearth, but it was more rag than rug now, and terribly dirty beside.2001, Ann Moore, Gracelin O'Malley, Penguin, →ISBN, page 339. From the entry bawneen
• The pharaoh ant, Monomorium pharaonis, is one of the most persistent and pestiferous ants to invade the sanctity of hearth and home.1989, May Berenbaum, Ninety-nine Gnats, Nits, and Nibblers, page 19. From the entry pharaoh ant
• There were nights when we all sat around the hearth fire singing the old Irish songs and locally composed ballads which are long since forgotten.1988, William K. Parke, “Escape from the Village”, in A Fermanagh Childhood, Belfast, Northern Ireland: The Friar’s Bush Press, →ISBN…. From the entry ceilidh
• The warm brown rug, brown tiles around the hearth, and earth-tone upholstery carry out the friendly, casual feeling of the ranch-style house and wood paneling.1979, John T. Molloy, Planning & Remodeling: Family Rooms, Dens & Studios, page 30. From the entry earth-tone
• The conquered woman turns back as a mother to draw him in, more and more into herself, to her warm quiescent hearth, to the unborn.1930 (date written), Dane Rudhyar, Rania: An Epic Narrative, San Francisco, Calif.: Unity Press, published spring 1973, →ISBN, page 71. From the entry mothering
• Ben had lighted the candles and the big logs on the hearth burst into flame as he threw on pine cones and pieces of driftwood.1924, Anne Carroll Moore, chapter XIII, in Nicholas, A Manhattan Christmas Story, page 172. From the entry pine cone
• He would give much to be in a chair by one of those hearths and in the thick of that blowsy fragrance.1921, John Buchan, chapter 11, in The Path of the King, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry blowsy
• Consternation and despair seized the district, and great numbers of sectaries and their families flocked together for the defence of their hearths and homes.1904, J. J. M. DeGroot, Sectarianism and Religious Persecution in China, volume II, Amsterdam: Johannes Müller, pages 343–344. From the entry T'ai-wan
• Ancient Romans practiced fire worship, and they charged young girls known as Vestal Virgins with keeping temple fires lit in the temple of Vesta, goddess of the hearth.2014, François Reeves, Planet Heart: How an Unhealthy Environment Leads to Heart Disease, →ISBN. From the entry fire worship
• These ten Spheres were the sun, moon, Earth, the five additional known planets at the time—Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn—the counter-Earth, and the central hearth.2005, Dimitra Karamanides, Pythagoras. From the entry counter-earth
• In the hearth at the north wall a large fire cracked and lisped, flushing the room with a dry sirocco that caused frozen skin to tingle.2003, Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, Random House, →ISBN, page 113. From the entry sirocco
• Our words together piled deeper than the snow—we sat side by side at the hearth, eating tōfu with miso and taking cup after cup of sake.2002, Sōchō, translated by H. Mack Horton, The Journal of Sōchō, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 130. From the entry tōfu
• Jeanne-Marie came nearer the hearth, unglued the mildewed pages of a magazine, then leafed through the pretty people and practical advice for laundering in low temperatures.1994, Jean Echenoz, Double Jeopardy. From the entry unijambist
• Part of the reason Thoreau lights on fireplaces, chimneys, and hearths as indexical locations has to do with all that they mean in terms of warming centers.1991, Frederick Garber, Thoreau's Fable of Inscribing (Princeton Legacy Library), Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 153. From the entry warming center
• In one corner of the room there was a huge hearth, over which hung a stock-pot, with a not altogether unpalatable odour of hot soup emanating therefrom.1905 January 12, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], The Scarlet Pimpernel, popular edition, London: Greening & Co., published 20 March…. From the entry unpalatable
• The silhouette sharpens and fades as the carving is moved before the flames of the hearth, its maker grunts in perfect imitation of the ancestor - a human-lioness in oestrus.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 186. From the entry grunt

Meaning of hearth

1. noun The place in a home where a fire is or was traditionally kept for home heating and for cooking, usually constituted by at least a hearthstone and often enclosed to varying degrees by any combination of reredos, fireplace, oven, smoke hood, or chimney.
2. noun A hearthstone, either as standalone or as the floor of an enclosed fireplace or oven.
3. noun A fireplace: an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire may be built.

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How do you use hearth in a sentence?

Hearth is used as a noun. For example: “To put it simply, he seems to me to be starting out to harm the city, from its very hearth, by setting out to wrong you.”

What is a short sentence with hearth?

“cooking on an open hearth”

What does hearth mean?

Hearth means the place in a home where a fire is or was traditionally kept for home heating and for cooking, usually constituted by at least a hearthstone and often enclosed to varying degrees by any combination of reredos, fireplace, oven, smoke hood, or chimney.