How to Use bonfire in a Sentence

bonfire

noun
  • There, the children crowd around a metal firepit and peer at the remnants of their last bonfire.
    Jackie Mader, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Be the first to rate & review! S'mores cookies capture all the flavors of the fireside treat but without the need to build a bonfire.
    Kermilia White, Southern Living, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The tours are at 6:30 and 8 p.m., and each ends with s’mores by a bonfire at the Boathouse.
    Ben Crandell, sun-sentinel.com, 21 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • The Kalash dance around a bonfire, linking arms and chanting prayers for the year ahead.
    New York Times, 27 Dec. 2020
  • But takeout, and those hardy enough to sip and snack by a bonfire on the shortest days of the year, weren't enough.
    Brooks Johnson, Star Tribune, 12 Jan. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • Hannah is back at the bonfire, aware of what has happened to her.
    Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 13 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • Videos on social media show the crowd starting a bonfire in the middle of the street to burn masks.
    Sophie Lewis, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2020

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