(n.) A man whose business is to extinguish fires in towns; a member of a fire company.
(n.) A man who tends the fires, as of a steam engine; a stocker.
Example Sentences:
(1) But we don't have a go at a fireman if someone is killed in a fire."
(2) Some abnormalities (increased VC, decreased RV) are typical of diving activities, but the deterioration of effort-dependent expiratory flow values and alveolar-capillary diffusion must be ascribed to specific nuisances (fumes, polluants, toxic substances) associated with fireman's activities.
(3) Her parents, a midwife and a retired fireman, said they were proud of their supremely focussed, "no fuss" daughter.
(4) One of these kids could be the next engineer, the next politician, fireman, cop.
(5) This rule has been applied primarily to police applicants, secondarily to fireman applicants, and rarely to other.
(6) My friend Vince, he's a fireman – he borrows my car sometimes and it's a running joke at the fire station – he's never been stopped."
(7) It is the obvious anguish of Stephen Thomasson, 65, a retired fireman, that suggests some may now be thinking the previously unthinkable.
(8) Refugees are our future spouses, best friends, or soulmates, the drummer for the band of our children, our next colleague, Miss Iceland in 2022, the carpenter who finally finished the bathroom, the cook in the cafeteria, the fireman, the computer genius, or the television host.” Syrian refugees: four million people forced to flee as crisis deepens Read more Many of those posting on the group have said they would offer up their homes and skills to help refugees integrate.
(9) "At the bottom of one slide, a fireman tried to protect those already lying on the floor from those coming down the slide by lying across the bottom of the slide."
(10) The recent kerfuffle provoked by the film of the off-duty fireman chucking the alleged fair dodger off the train in Scotland has opened an interesting debate about this issue.
(11) She told Ebony magazine that her partner, Ian, "was a Royal Marine, then a fireman, then a Cambridge graduate in chemistry.
(12) Three cases (a chemist with exposure to halogenated aromatic compounds and aliphatic amines, a pipefitter with exposure to asbestos, and a machinist with exposures to cutting oils, solvents, and abrasives) and one of 28 controls (a fireman with multiple hazardous exposures) had an occupational risk factor.
(13) Casting about for a career, he settled on being a fireman, because a fireman is an indisputably essential guy, right?
(14) Asked if she planned to be present for the execution, she replied without hesitation “oh, I’ll be there every step of the way.” Michael Ward, an off-duty fireman who was one of the first responders on the scene, put it more succinctly.
(15) features shows including Peppa Pig, Fireman Sam and Thomas & Friends.
(16) The cases are classified, by correlation of clinical and histopathological data as a variant of Fireman's disease.
(17) As a volunteer fireman he was on duty during the Luftwaffe's 1942 attacks on Bath, and his account of civilian life and preparations for D-day in June 1944 from his vantage point as maintenance manager at a US army camp is as engrossing as his tales of trench life.
(18) A fireman inspected Hope’s installation and told him he was OK to carry on.
(19) The capacity for barefaced lying infuriated and exasperated the legions of diplomats and mediators who dealt with Milosevic, for years treating him as the chief fireman rather than chief arsonist.
(20) They had two sons, Matt, a director of the McLaren Formula One team, and Foff (Francis), a West Sussex fireman.
Stoker
Definition:
(v. t.) One who is employed to tend a furnace and supply it with fuel, especially the furnace of a locomotive or of a marine steam boiler; also, a machine for feeding fuel to a fire.
(v. t.) A fire poker.
Example Sentences:
(1) Irving decided they should all take a month’s holiday and then regroup; he suggested Stoker try Whitby on the north Yorkshire coast, where Irving had once run a circus.
(2) Just as Mary was partly motivated by Byron and her husband, the poet Shelley, so Bram Stoker, the business manager for the Lyceum theatre, was inspired by his devoted service to the great Shakespearean actor Henry Irving.
(3) At weekends throughout the school holidays the site will be bringing Bram Stoker's tale to life with a cast of actors and time-travel-themed events.
(4) That first week when he was alone in Whitby, he would go around, soaking up the ambience.” Talking to the old salts on the harbour and mooching around the churchyard up on the East Cliff, Stoker assembled a catalogue of local myths and stories that are recognisable to anyone familiar with the Dracula story.
(5) This is based on another legend Stoker would have heard about a dark hound – a story brought over by the vikings.
(6) Bram Stoker's masterpiece has become a mirror in which later generations of readers can explore any number of secret fantasies.
(7) Stoker would go to the reading room of the Royal Hotel and look out at the scene you can see now.
(8) Miller, who played incarcerated structural engineer Michael Scofield in Prison Break from 2005 to 2009, wrote the script for the film Stoker, starring Nicole Kidman and directed by Park Chan-wook.
(9) Other films expected to premiere are Park Chan-wook's thriller Stoker; Lovelace – an account of the life of porn star Linda "Deep Throat" Lovelace ; and Breathe in, a new drama from Like Crazy director Drake Doremus.
(10) But the mark Stoker left on the town is as indelible as a pair of pinprick bites on a snow-white neck.
(11) ... 1892!” He goes on: “Whitby was undoubtedly instrumental to Stoker when he wrote Dracula.
(12) In Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, Count Dracula lives in a crumbling Transylvanian castle.
(13) Among the contemporary anxieties reflected in Stoker's tale was a fear about the future.
(14) Samples of coal ash from a stoker-fired furnace were mechanically sized into four categories.
(15) Then came the 19th century's series of gloomy fables: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein , James Hogg 's Confessions of a Justified Sinner , Robert Louis Stevenson 's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde , Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray , Bram Stoker's Dracula , and the marvellous ghost stories of Charles Dickens, Sheridan Le Fanu, Henry James and MR James .
(16) In fact, here’s one now ... Facebook Twitter Pinterest Whitby as Stoker saw it … the town pictured between 1890 and 1900.
(17) Kidman, responding at a special screening of her new film Stoker in London last week, said she was determined to present a carefully crafted take on Alfred Hitchcock 's best known muse.
(18) One of Stoker's many influences in setting the novel in Transylvania was local mass murderer Vlad III "the Impaler", the 15th-century Prince of Wallachia, whose family name was Dracula.
(19) Elsewhere, in the Daily Mail , Bram Stoker was rated above both Mary Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe ( No 10 in this series ).
(20) This study was set up to investigate whether work as a stoker is associated with an increased risk of specific malignant neoplasms.