On this page you'll find 9 example sentences with Grassfire. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as fire and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Grassfire meaning
A fire burning over grass or grassland.
Synonyms of Grassfire
Using Grassfire
- The main meaning on this page is: A fire burning over grass or grassland.
- Useful related words include: prairie fire, fire.
- In the example corpus, grassfire often appears in combinations such as: grassfire south.
Context around Grassfire
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 2 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Grassfire
- In this selection, "grassfire" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 21.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, large, south, exercise and events stand out and add context to how "grassfire" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a grassfire has started and a grassfire south of. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "grassfire" sits close to words such as aakash, aanholt and aardwolf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with grassfire
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A large grassfire was sparked near the runway after the engine failure. (12 words)
A grassfire south of Calaway Park forced the amusement park to close early Sunday afternoon. (15 words)
Several fire brigades participated in a grassfire exercise to keep emergency services prepared for action. (15 words)
These are only activated when the brigade are responded to bushfire or grassfire events and for testing, they are not activated for every call out as they are used as public alert to bushfires. (34 words)
About 5pm, CFA strike teams that had been sitting in wait for spot fires in the Ovens Valley were sent to put out a grassfire at Bandiana, on the outskirts of Wodonga. (32 words)
Sunday's fire started as a grassfire along the Missouri River bank and moved up the bluff to the fort, fanned by windy and unseasonably dry conditions. (27 words)
Example sentences (9)
A grassfire south of Calaway Park forced the amusement park to close early Sunday afternoon.
A large grassfire was sparked near the runway after the engine failure.
About 5pm, CFA strike teams that had been sitting in wait for spot fires in the Ovens Valley were sent to put out a grassfire at Bandiana, on the outskirts of Wodonga.
A GRASSFIRE has started at the Murrumbidgee River, near Stony Creek Nature Reserve, and people in the remote area of Mt Stromlo could be affected.
Several fire brigades participated in a grassfire exercise to keep emergency services prepared for action.
The grassfire is within a few hundred metres of residential housing at Carrara on the Gold Coast.
There is a grassfire south west of Strathallan and north of Rochester that is not yet under control.
Sunday's fire started as a grassfire along the Missouri River bank and moved up the bluff to the fort, fanned by windy and unseasonably dry conditions.
These are only activated when the brigade are responded to bushfire or grassfire events and for testing, they are not activated for every call out as they are used as public alert to bushfires.
Common combinations with grassfire
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: