How to Use stoke in a Sentence

stoke

verb

• The engineer stoked the coals.
• The new ad campaign has helped to stoke sales.
• Poor revenue figures have stoked concerns about possible layoffs.
• This is the first time I’m really stoked at the end of the process.
  — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 24 June 2024
• Musk is the richest man in the world, and Rock made sure to stoke his ego.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2023
• The whole intention of the movie is to stoke the outrage.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 9 Mar. 2024
• So stoked to see this baby come to life… or in this case to death ☠️.
  — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 6 Oct. 2023
• Otherwise, the singer was stoked to be back in the city that launched her career.
  — Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024
• High rates should slow it down; lower rates stoke growth.
  — David Lightman, Sacramento Bee, 21 Feb. 2024
• Glass stoked a fire in a woodstove and handed me a Heineken in a jelly jar.
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
• The night watchman stokes his lamp and walks wide-eyed tourists through the back lanes telling stories of hot oil and great plagues.
  — Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2023
• The coup has stoked fears that Niger, a former French colony, could shift closer to Russia.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 31 July 2023
• Despite the holes in the system, the move to bring in the National Guard stoked concern in some quarters.
  — Sean Cotter, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2023
• Plus, everyone’s stoked when Olivia comes over to our thing.
  — John Russell, People.com, 11 Oct. 2024
• That’s why we were stoked to see so many great Amazon Prime Peloton deals on deck this year.
  — Kells McPhillips, SELF, 16 July 2024
• The plane had stoked fear among Western militaries for years.
  — Clay Risen, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2023
• But the bottom line is stoking the legend is good for Rose Hall’s bottom line.
  — Jack Bantock, CNN, 2 Aug. 2024
• And even the best lockdown drills can stoke fear and anxiety in them, Schonfeld added.
  — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 27 May 2022
• The idea is to thin out things like underbrush and low tree limbs that are so good at stoking wildfire.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
• Leshchenko’s stories helped stoke the anger that brought protesters into the streets.
  — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2022
• As warm weather arrived, there was no need to stoke the furnace.
  — Kenneth Goetz, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 June 2023
• One stoke under par is a birdie, two strokes under par is an eagle.
  — Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2023
• We're stoked to see how each of their stories unfold this summer!
  — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 6 June 2023
• Today, tourism stokes their economies, and each is well connected by hourly trains.
  — Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2023
• Such a decline could stoke demand from would-be buyers.
  — Jim Tankersley, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024
• Oil prices are being weighed by the U.S. Fed’s hawkish tone that has stoked fears about holding rates higher for longer.
  — WSJ, 22 Sep. 2023
• Kwan is equally stoked and livid when Owen invites him to the helipad to assist.
  — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 7 Apr. 2023
• Country music in the past, since the Trump years, has found improvement of margins by preaching to the choir and stoking them flames.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2023
• Two ballot drop box fires in the Pacific Northwest this week have stoked concerns about election security and the risk of violence in the 2024 election days before voting concludes.
  — Julia Mueller, The Hill, 2 Nov. 2024
• The rare direct attack — a response to Tehran’s Oct. 1 barrage of more than 200 ballistic missiles — followed intense U.S. diplomacy to try to contain a hostile exchange between the two powers that has stoked fears of an all-out war.
  — Freddie Clayton, NBC News, 29 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024