ember
a small live piece of coal, wood, etc., as in a dying fire.
embers, the smoldering remains of a fire.
Origin of ember
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How to use ember in a sentence
Just grab a dead cracked cap polypore, get one edge of the shelf fungus smoldering with a coal from your fire, and carry it for an hour or two in a fireproof container to transport the live ember to your new campfire location.
The two types of fungi you want in your fire-starting kit | By Tim MacWelch/Outdoor Life | February 16, 2021 | Popular-SciencePlace the pieces close together, eliminating gaps that would drop your embers down into the snow.
When the Khoisan hunter-gatherers of sub-Saharan Africa gazed upon the meandering trail of stars and dust that split the night sky, they saw the embers of a campfire.
Just defining the fire dynamics of embers alone is a huge task.
California Will Keep Burning. But Housing Policy Is Making It Worse. | by Elizabeth Weil and Mollie Simon | October 2, 2020 | ProPublicaAnother about mulch that lets embers smolder until a wind whips them into “open flames that creep right up to people’s house walls.”
California Will Keep Burning. But Housing Policy Is Making It Worse. | by Elizabeth Weil and Mollie Simon | October 2, 2020 | ProPublica
One night, driving home, I passed an alley and saw someone light a crack pipe, the tiny red ember flaring bright.
Haunted by the Coca Leaf in ‘The Sound of Things Falling’ | Susan Straight | July 31, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIf just a single ember remains hot at its core, Olshanski notes, the result can be an inferno.
Madonna Badger’s ‘Today’ Interview Shouldn’t Ignore Fire’s Tragic Lessons | Michael Daly | June 21, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTFire was actually carried in hollowed out branches in which an ember was placed.
I understood, and, stepping to the fire, returned with a charred ember.
The Reckoning | Robert W. ChambersThe other snatched a blazing ember from the mud chimney and struck the leading wolf dead partly within the hut.
Red Hunters And the Animal People | Charles A. EastmanWhen he ceased silence reigned, except for the occasional snapping of a burning ember.
Red Hunters And the Animal People | Charles A. EastmanIt grew and expanded till it formed a huge ember-mottled orchid with vast petals trembling in the wind.
What Will People Say? | Rupert HughesDarius lay as I had last seen him; and him we buried in the maize clearing at the back, with the ember glow for funeral lights.
The Master of Appleby | Francis Lynde
British Dictionary definitions for ember
/ (ˈɛmbə) /
a glowing or smouldering piece of coal or wood, as in a dying fire
the fading remains of a past emotion: the embers of his love
Origin of ember
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