Word info

fire out

Verb

Meaning

fire out (third-person singular simple present fires out, present participle firing out, simple past and past participle fired out)

(transitive) to shoot out
The gun fired out a round of bullets.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

For war is never some cosmic accident descending upon a people with all the chance and inevitability of asteroids falling like fire out of the heavens, but only the will and work of man. David Zindell

Deep down, if we really accept that their lives - African lives - are equal to ours, we would all be doing more to put the fire out. Its an uncomfortable truth. Jeffrey D. Sachs

I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did - or did not do - to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do. Bono

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade. Bono

You cannot put a fire out with spit. Armenian Proverb

With hard work, you can get fire out of a stone. Dutch Proverb

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