Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: coals
IPA transcription: [k'oʊlz]
Usage examples
  • The 'Ecliptic' was carrying coals from Newcastle.
  • If the oven does not bake well, set in a furnace of live coals.
  • The fire had died down except a few coals which cast but a faint light.
  • The magician lived in a gloomy tower, and had an enchanted black dog that he fed with flaming coals.
  • At night these glowing coals seem like a pillar of fire, telling of the presence of their leader and protector.
  • He would burn you with red-hot coals to stop your bleeding, and thrust wires into you to assist your circulation.
  • Corn cakes, vegetables, and two kinds of meat were cooking over the coals and a great pot of coffee boiled and bubbled.
  • And I: "My Master, thy discourses are To me so certain, and so take my faith, That unto me the rest would be spent coals.
  • There stood a great black horse tied up in a stall by himself, with a manger of red-hot coals at his head and a truss of hay at his tail.
  • At night we had no other shelter than our blankets, and we could not keep a fire because the spruce burned too fast and threw too many coals.