Below you will find example sentences with "fires burning". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Fires Burning in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: fires
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 6
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 23.8 words

Words in this phrase

fires burning

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • fires can mean: plural of fire Frequent word
  • burning can mean: present participle and gerund of burn Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 7 start, 10 middle, 3 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

480 active fires burning across the 1× about 90 fires burning from last 1× and jungle fires burning for longer 1× are 560 fires burning in the 1× combat multiple fires burning across the 1× coming from fires burning to the 1× complex of fires burning in san 1× fires burning at creswick 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

according to firesmoke 1× according to roberts 1× balasuriya said that 1× fires burning at 1× fires burning out 1× gov gavin newsom 1×

Common sentence endings:

79 000 acres 1× acres of land 1× across the country 1× across the province 1× across the state 1× after the update 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

across 5× forest 4× tuesday 3× acres 3× smoke 3× help 3× british 2× columbia 2× province 2× last 2× year 2× new 2×

Related phrases

forest fires burning man

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around fires:

forest fires 17×

Just before it in the phrase index:

firefighters responded fire weather fire trucks fire station fire service fire prevention

Just after it in the phrase index:

firing range firms recently first aid first amendment first anniversary first appearance

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "fires burning" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 23.8 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as 480 active fires burning across the, about 90 fires burning from last, across, forest and tuesday stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with forest fires, burning man and forest fires, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with fires burning

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

There were no fires burning in Dubbo on Tuesday. (9 words)

The blaze is one of about 480 active fires burning across the province. (13 words)

The hazy skies are from the smoke of huge forest fires burning in Quebec, Canada. (15 words)

Longer example sentences

Lori Daniels, the Koerner Chair in Wildfire Coexistence at the University of British Columbia, said the province still has about 90 fires burning from last year, and that crews have already been deployed to douse eight new fires in 2024. (40 words)

The thousands of fires burning in the Amazon don’t look like the major forest fires of Europe or North America — instead, they are fuelled mainly by branches, vegetation and other byproducts of deforestation in cleared areas, experts say. (39 words)

A number of fires burning in the Snowy Mountains region in New South Wales and across into Victoria have merged across more than 600,000 hectares (1.5 million acres) of land. (32 words)

Example sentences (20)

Lori Daniels, the Koerner Chair in Wildfire Coexistence at the University of British Columbia, said the province still has about 90 fires burning from last year, and that crews have already been deployed to douse eight new fires in 2024.

There are 560 fires burning in the state, many small and remote but there are about two dozen major fires, mainly in Northern California.

The thousands of fires burning in the Amazon don’t look like the major forest fires of Europe or North America — instead, they are fuelled mainly by branches, vegetation and other byproducts of deforestation in cleared areas, experts say.

Fires Burning Out-Of-Control In Napa, Mendocino Counties And Near YosemiteGovernor Brown on Saturday declared a state of emergency in the state because of the Mendocino, Napa and Lake fires.

The complex of fires burning in San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties reached 17-percent containment as of Tuesday morning, after burning just under 79,000 acres.

According to FireSmoke Canada's online map, much of the smoke moving into Yellowknife is from fires burning north of the city.

Meanwhile, the Greek foreign ministry thanked the island for its help in extinguishing the forest fires burning in Greece for the past week.

The blaze is one of about 480 active fires burning across the province.

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The Donnie Creek fire is one of 83 fires burning in British Columbia, and one of 413 active blazes across the country.

The hazy skies are from the smoke of huge forest fires burning in Quebec, Canada.

There were no fires burning in Dubbo on Tuesday.

According to Roberts, some of the smoke could also be coming from fires burning to the west in Alberta, adding to the intensity.

Balasuriya said that, when he returned in the early hours of the morning, the street “looked like a war zone”, with fires burning among piles of rubble.

Fires burning at Creswick and Candook have been downgraded and no lives or houses were lost, Hardman said.

Some first responders told Denver7 they were in Oregon a few days prior, helping fight fires burning there, before coming back to Colorado.

The blaze was exacerbated by the dry conditions caused by the high temperatures, with fires burning 30 times as many acres statewide as last year.

The fires burning throughout the state have overwhelmed California's firefighting capacity and outside help has started to arrive, officials said.

A number of fires burning in the Snowy Mountains region in New South Wales and across into Victoria have merged across more than 600,000 hectares (1.5 million acres) of land.

Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a statewide emergency Tuesday to help ensure resources to combat multiple fires burning across the state.

In part these tweaks will focus on 's Gathering Storm expansion, with forest and jungle fires burning for longer after the update.

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