How to Use ember in a Sentence

ember

noun

• Most put out a warm glow, one that reminds me of the embers of a camp fire.
  — Mike Rose, cleveland, 25 Apr. 2020
• This notch will allow the dust to pour out and create a place for the ember to form.
  — Popular Science, 14 Apr. 2020
• The Parthenon glowed at eye level, a pile of orange ember in the sky.
  — New York Times, 22 Sep. 2021
• One never knows which ember will land in the right spot to set it all ablaze.
  — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2021
• But so fierce was the wind that the embers traveled across the hills, causing fires up to 13 miles away.
  — Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2020
• The ferocity of the winds sent embers swirling through the air.
  — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 19 Aug. 2023
• As the meat cooks, don't add any more wood, but let the flames die down so the embers are cooking the venison.
  — Jonathan Miles, Field & Stream, 13 Jan. 2020
• Ray's house fire was caused by a fire ember that came out of the home's chimney and landed on the roof.
  — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 27 Dec. 2021
• To help kick the new year off on a fragrant note, Febreze has announced ember as its scent of the year.
  — Danielle Harling, House Beautiful, 20 Feb. 2022
• The fire sizzles down to embers, casting the area in a hazy orange glow.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 23 Feb. 2023
• That can easily take an ember and pull it across the line...
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2020
• Australia was ablaze, and the embers had barely cooled in the Amazon.
  — Mary Annaïse Heglar, Wired, 1 Apr. 2020
• And the flames and the embers are fully contained within the robot.
  — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 10 Mar. 2023
• The devil gave him a single ember to light his way through the darkness.
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Oct. 2021
• If all goes right, dust will become an ember and your fire will be born.
  — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 25 Feb. 2020
• Walk to the ocean and get a bucket of water to put all the embers out, Eras recommends.
  — Julia Carmel, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• The throngs on Market Street surged, blowing by in the streets like embers from a great bonfire.
  — Scott Johnson, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 July 2023
• But wee moons, it was thought, should have lost their meager embers long ago.
  — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 7 Feb. 2024
• The neighborhood was shrouded in gray, and wind was hurling embers, leaves and dirt in the air.
  — Corina Knoll, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2023
• Two years of drought have parched vegetation to the point where it’s primed to ignite at the drop of an ember.
  — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2021
• Wind blew red-hot embers across the water, sparking new fires around the city of Kelowna.
  — Emily Anthes, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
• Alongside the big train, the e-tron GT was a bauble, a shiny red ember, although not without charms of its own.
  — Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 1 Dec. 2021
• But as the embers of war glow in the region, this gambit becomes less and less tenable.
  — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 12 Jan. 2024
• Through an opened window, an ember winged through the air, burning his leg.
  — Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Sep. 2020
• Place wet towels under doors to keep smoke and embers out.
  — Hannah Ramirez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2023
• Hawaiian Electric said its crews then went to the scene to make repairs and did not see fire, smoke or embers.
  — Jennifer McDermott, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2023
• Keep a water source ready to spray embers from fireworks.
  — Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 30 June 2023
• Ash and embers fly through the air, leaving the bystanders blinking and rubbing their eyes.
  — Mark Orwoll, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2023
• With the red blaze of noon and the ember glow of dusk, Sze’s work captures a rare feeling of seeing time pass before one’s eyes.
  — Cody Delistraty, WSJ, 3 Sep. 2020
• The fire, driven by the wind, had thrown off copious amounts of embers into the dry grasses, some of them said.
  — Mike Baker, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024