How to Use bonfire in a Sentence

bonfire

noun

• Wear it for casual errands, bonfires, or a trip to the movies.
  — Michelle Rostamian, Peoplemag, 20 Sep. 2024
• At dusk, a large bonfire was built using massive logs arranged in the shape of a teepee.
  — NBC News, 3 Mar. 2021
• At the end of the day, gather your family around a bonfire to make s’mores and watch the tide roll in or out.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2021
• Can its lofty reputation survive as its major thinkers are heaped on our new bonfire of the vanities?
  — Jeffrey Collins, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2021
• All a planet or a moon would require is ice and gravitational tides to sustain an internal bonfire.
  — science.org, 19 Sep. 2024
• That evening, celebrants typically light a bonfire to represent burning away any bad energy from the past season.
  — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Mar. 2021
• At the house, CT starts a bonfire for his conversation with Big T that inevitably goes horribly wrong.
  — Kyndall Cunningham, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2021
• But joy turned to horror after midnight when thousands of people leaving a bonfire-lighting ritual crowded into a narrow passageway with a metal wall on one side and benches on the other.
  — Felicia Schwartz, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2021
• The bonfire is cleansing and meant to burn away all the bad and evil.
  — Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 26 May 2023
• That caused Shep to fall over in his chair as the bonfire raged on.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2022
• Watch the sunset or gaze at the stars up above next to a bonfire on the beach.
  — Molly Allen, Travel + Leisure, 21 July 2024
• End the night with s'mores and hot chocolate by a bonfire.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 16 June 2023
• Again, the bonfire smoke coming from the peat is soft and slow.
  — Felipe Schrieberg, Forbes, 29 June 2022
• Simone has a rough start, but there was the fun at the bonfire.
  — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 22 Feb. 2022
• On Thursday, in the southern swath of the burn scar, the hot air still smelled of bonfire.
  — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2023
• And when the sun goes down, the style factor heats up like a big ol' Texas bonfire.
  — Hannah Jones, Country Living, 10 Mar. 2023
• Over a bonfire and small cups of hot chocolate, the crowd was hushed.
  — Maddie Ellis, Chicago Tribune, 21 Nov. 2022
• By the front door, two creepy groups of stone cult members make a bonfire.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 28 Oct. 2022
• The streets were ablaze with bonfires that winter, tires and much else set aflame.
  — Roya Hakakian, The Atlantic, 22 Nov. 2023
• The gulch and the forest around it became a bonfire pit waiting for a spark.
  — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2024
• The garden was juddering in the light from the bonfire.
  — Graham Swift, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
• This looks like a bonfire versus a black rolling smoke.
  — Maggie Vespa, NBC News, 14 Apr. 2023
• And Lewis, the son of Benjamin, the sisters’ cousin, would light the bonfire, once his father’s job.
  — David Gilbert, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2022
• Love the thought of a backyard bonfire on cool, fall nights but hate the thought of smoke stinging your eyes?
  — Nor'adila Hepburn, Southern Living, 25 Sep. 2023
• The last image is a video in which is seems to be burning a bag and a letter in a bonfire.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 12 Feb. 2023
• Summer in the south means that a bonfire or two is inevitable.
  — al, 23 May 2022
• The heat was more intense than sitting right next to a bonfire.
  — Travel + Leisure, 19 Aug. 2021
• Ty and his friend Emily Francis at a school bonfire for the football team in the fall of 2018.
  — Washington Post, 30 June 2022
• That meta spin won’t stop anyone from singing it around a bonfire.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 May 2024
• Pack them with your camping gear and enjoy around the bonfire.
  — Jenae Sitzes, Country Living, 20 July 2023

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024