Examples of firelight in a Sentence
The firelight gave the room a warm glow.
At night, he read by firelight.
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Seen through the flicker of firelight and fighting, however, are the village musicians, whose fiddles and harmonizing voices rise pure and sweet above the revelry.
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Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2024
The team's digital reconstructions showed that the engraved images would appear to move and flicker in the firelight, amounting to a kind of animated fireside art.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 May 2023
Early humans first discovered this cave system some 5,000 years ago and left behind pictographs made by firelight.
—Brandy Schillace, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2023
Working by firelight, these diminutive cave explorers dug shallow graves, sometimes arranging bodies in fetal positions and placing a stone tool near a child’s hand.
—Byann Gibbons, science.org, 5 June 2023
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Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2024
The team's digital reconstructions showed that the engraved images would appear to move and flicker in the firelight, amounting to a kind of animated fireside art.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 May 2023
Early humans first discovered this cave system some 5,000 years ago and left behind pictographs made by firelight.
—Brandy Schillace, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2023
Working by firelight, these diminutive cave explorers dug shallow graves, sometimes arranging bodies in fetal positions and placing a stone tool near a child’s hand.
—Byann Gibbons, science.org, 5 June 2023
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“Firelight.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/firelight. Accessed 28 Sep. 2024.
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firelight
noun
fire·light
ˈfī(ə)r-ˌlīt 
: the light of a fire and especially of one in a fireplace
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