How To Use Campfire In A Sentence

Forest Service crews routinely discover smoldering campfires along trails.
A group of boys and girls gathered around the campfire to sing songs.
And good thing too, since one of the true joys of bean consumption is being able to re-enact the campfire scene from Blazing Saddles, although I've found it easier to convince the occasional date to engage in intimacies than to join in the butt trumpet serenading. Old Rice/New Rice....Old Beans/New Beans
The temperature was minus 10 degrees centigrade so we gathered around the campfire inside, talking, singing and getting to know each other.
Now, the coals of the campfire had burned low and, in the big skillet, rabbit legs and thick bacon rashers spluttered.

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We find a patch of dry ground, cook our last freeze-dried dinner, and build a campfire.
However, at many public parks and forests, campfires are permitted only in established fire rings cleared of all flammable materials.
Then he looks at the liver of a sheep, but reading entrails is as old as campfires and rocks so that's not a big surprise. Cross Pollination and Wiscon: brace yourself for rambling
By the end, they're just something to jaw about by the campfire.
A few lights from campfires at the canyon campground flickered in the distance.
Ehomba ducked instinctively and the blast of luminescent diablerie passed over his left shoulder to strike the center of the dying campfire. Carnivores of Light and Darkness
His prey is the charred remnants of a campfire set along a trail in the heart of this tinder-dry wilderness area.
He saw her stirring the embers of the dying campfire and tiptoed stealthily up behind her.
The campfire was burned out, and in the pit were the charcoaled remains of all of our stuff. The Human Bobby
Liam will spend a day in a traditional Zulu village where he can meet a sangoma (witch doctor) and enjoy a Zulu meal around a campfire.
At first light, when alpenglow fires the high summits with radiance like the burn of a gigantic campfire, the dusty surface of the old snowpack glows with eerie luster.
As though he has just come back from India and the great Maharishi, Brother JT songs resemble campfire ditties, with an odd tinge.
He saw her stirring the embers of the dying campfire and tiptoed stealthily up behind her.
He pointed to a little campground with a designated campfire place and some benches.
Last week, two community newspapers in Howard County ran front-page, color photographs of a naked man tending a campfire.
Sunday, July 26, 2009 the hills visit oregon - day two, part two the rest of sunday we spent driving down to newport, lunching at café stephanie, visiting nye beach and the oregon coast aquarium. charlie was generous with scrunchy funny faces today for photos. when we returned to rockaway, we made a campfire in the backyard, complete with veggie hotdogs and smores. The hills visit oregon - day two, part two
He saw her stirring the embers of the dying campfire and tiptoed stealthily up behind her.
Finally, tiny dots of campfires appeared in the distance.
In addition to campfire cooking, Dad taught us the names of all the trees, animals, reptiles and birds as well as their habits.
Is pogonip A, smoke from the campfire; B, bee pollen; C, frozen fog; or D, smelly fish guts? CNN Transcript May 16, 2007
How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?
There is nothing quite like sitting around a campfire, talking about anything and everything, while enjoying a friendly toke or two.
Perhaps it would be like a person's usual voice being taken over by a telling voice, sitting round a campfire intoning long poems thousands of years ago.
We hunkered down round the campfire, toasting marshmallows.
Some are ragged drifters, but most disturbing is the sight of entire families - a haggard and exhausted father and mother, accompanied by a bevy of grimy children - sprawled around a campfire of twigs.
Try as they might to update their image, it seems we in the press are incapable of reporting on those abiding British institutions without cracking mean-minded jokes about woggles and campfire ditties.
There were two rows of tents down each side of the site, several campfires down the centre, a corral of horses up the far end of the clearing and food hanging off the rock face behind the far row of tents.
Each week we find ourselves constantly scrambling to fit the opening, an active game, all the program work plus a campfire and taps into a two hour window.
_Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories_ present companions for the mind of this hardy sort, and hopes, whether boys read or are told these stories, they will prove to be such as exalt and inspire while they thrill and entertain. The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories
Meg's ‘In The Cold, Cold Night’ is a campfire song to make the blood chill, while Jack verges on glam operatics on ‘There's No Home For You Here’.
Almost all of them were at pains to make clear, though, that they'd been drummed out in short order, because they were either too cool for campfires or too anti-establishment for the uniform.
To learn more about Campfire USA, call Newcomb at (760) 722-8318. Fore, right!
Ripe, black cherry and blackberry fruit with viols, campfire, licorice, cookie dough and spices coming in on the midpalate and some chew tobacco, oil barrel, tar and asphalt on the finish. CellarTracker Tasting Notes (all notes)
I became aware of a woman on the edge of the campfire light. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
Prosecutors say she told them that while she was on patrol enforcing a ban on campfires, she went to a campfire site, burned a letter from her estranged husband and lost control of the fire.
He pointed to a little campground with a designated campfire place and some benches.
She closed her eyes and listened to the soft crackle of the warm campfire.
The creatures included a monstrous blue unicorn with a beard like a goat and tailless, but talented, beavers that walked on their hind legs, lived in huts and built campfires. Marc Hartzman: A Touch of Knowledge: The Man-Bats on the Moon
Sunday, July 26, 2009 the hills visit oregon - day two, part two the rest of sunday we spent driving down to newport, lunching at café stephanie, visiting nye beach and the oregon coast aquarium. charlie was generous with scrunchy funny faces today for photos. when we returned to rockaway, we made a campfire in the backyard, complete with veggie hotdogs and smores. The hills visit oregon - day two, part two
First up then, a really hearty slap-up breakfast: home-made waffles and epic chocolatey hot chocolate, cooked on the campfire, because ... well, because it's a beautiful day. TV review: Jamie's Christmas With Bells On
He developed a nightly routine of studying a few chapters by the light of the campfire.
Once ready, dampers can be smothered in butter, syrup or jam, or filled with a campfire sausage.
While we're on a musical note, the campfire song Kumbaya is said to be Angolan.
You will also learn to build a campfire. Times, Sunday Times
Court documents say three people left a campfire unattended Tuesday and high winds spread the embers into the forest, burning through more than three-square miles. CNN Transcript May 2, 2008
Never leave any food, even leftover scraps or candy bars, around your tent or campfire.
It's not a regular habit, but I like a good chaw when I'm hiking or sitting around a campfire in the woods.
Rather than gobbing on the campfire, Lydon has been sharing his recipe for watercress soup; the closest he got to his trademark sneer was when he was coated in molasses and birdseed and sent out to battle a flock of ostriches.
They found burning campfires, some miscella-neous equipment and food, but no radio, no VC, and no general. Chickenhawk
Squatters occupy vacant lots in the upscale neighborhood where the Kumars live in Hyderabad, and their campfires give the warm air a smoky smell.
On the deck was a large picnic table, and just before the deck was a spot for a campfire and a pig roaster and grill.
It was a nice camp out in the woods, with canoes, campfires and songs.
His little riverboat, the flat-bottomed, open-sided Water Rat, is nestled in the reeds alongside Toolunka Island on the Murray River, while a campfire is blazing brightly and the billy is boiling.
While more jokes and wisecracks were coming from the campfire, Alan retreated to his cabin.
There are reggae jams and Velvet Underground dirges, one-minute tracks that float by like nothing and sprawling campfire singalongs.
It was sleeting, and my team spotted a ribbon of smoke in the forest and wheeled off the road to a campfire, around which huddled six Lithuanian cyclists.
The air smells of smoke from the campfires of squatters who live on vacant lots, next door to software executives and movie stars.
Maybe they should try a few jokes round the campfire instead. Times, Sunday Times
It was interesting hearing the conversation around the campfire that night: "I have a sweetheart back home. Christianity Today
At night, the nine slept by four separate campfires, divided along gender and age lines.
These stories feel more like yarns to be told around the campfire rather than finely wrought literature. Times, Sunday Times
Quickly roasted over a campfire, these made a very satisfying and splendid filling meal to end an otherwise trying and long day.
They went steadily among the low trees of the mesa top, slowing only when they saw the glimmer of scattered campfires. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
From campfires of Mughal soldiers to the royal banquet tables of kings and emperors, the kebab has travelled a long way.
It was sleeting, and my team spotted a ribbon of smoke in the forest and wheeled off the road to a campfire, around which huddled six Lithuanian cyclists.
While they were water rafting or singing campfire songs I was stuck in my room listening to my parents fight.
A group of boys and girls gathered round the campfire to sing songs.
The campfire, linen tablecloth and flickering lamps pile on the magic. Times, Sunday Times
Be especially aware of late night, rowdy discussions around the campfire, or yelling and shouting.
I quite fancy the life of a goatherd in the Tajik hills, playing music on a bucket with spoons and wearing those cool trousers while dancing round a campfire toasting small woodland creatures.
For example, and also in England, Girl Guides are being sued by a teenager who was hit by spitting fat while cooking sausages around the campfire.
We sang songs around a pretend campfire.
Trees arching over the banks of the creek are lit silvery orange by the glow of campfires and the night sky.
Almost all of them were at pains to make clear, though, that they'd been drummed out in short order, because they were either too cool for campfires or too anti-establishment for the uniform.
By the campfire at night we'll hear the wild dingos call
Monologues are a true storytelling artform, as in actual storytelling around the campfire, and Neil seems to be more of a teller than a describer.
Smoke rose, thin and quickly scattered, from a swale kilometers off, an excursionist campfire, but that belonged, recalling a Stone Age his race had forgotten but his genes had not. Genesis
Indeed, the extent to which the campfire story meets the spirit of the heroic tale of mythology is nothing short of amazing.
In best campfire tradition, we tell stories - not ghost stories, but mauling stories.
Historical, psychological and spiritual themes embroider the simple ghost story and contribute poignance and depth to what would amount to little more than a campfire tale in terms of plot.
Back then, a cowpoke would rope a steer, wrestle it to the ground, and a compatriot would use an iron heated over a campfire to burn a mark into the cow's hide.
The real aficionados of the film notice that there are no bikes in the final campfire scene. Times, Sunday Times
During the night, many times at camp, there would be several campfires and the Texans would surround it, talking, and joking of their lives back home.
Beans and franks are fine for some but these staples of campfire grub don't have to make an appearance on your holiday menu.
Irene stands up and prances around the campfire.
It is hours since the campfire guttered to ash, but the stars remain alight, burning with fluid intensity.
By nightfall, the road emptied, and dozens of lights from campfires dotted the tree line on both sides.
It was a dark and stormy night, and you wanted to scare the crap out of your campfire friends...
The soft, shimmering glow of the coralite was lost in the brighter light of hundreds of campfires. The Hand of Chaos
But before Rex tells any more of his rip-roaring stories over kangaroo steaks and tin mugs of red wine around his island campfire, he wants to get a few things straight.
Erica glanced up at Dan whose face was illuminated by the flames of campfires.
The activities continue even at night with moonlit campfire tales by a Maldivan storyteller or guided stargazing. TravelDailyNews.com
Forest Service crews often discover campfires that have not been put out completely.
My husband, who would have been a professional mountain climber had I not come along and spoiled his plans, decided to take a day hike up the famous "fourteener" while we lounged near the campfire. Home Sanctuary
There was SJAB, so had to stay back to plan the interunit campfire for 4th July ... Babycartercl Diary Entry
If we have not learned a lesson of forbearance from studying the rise and fall of the Langford campfire myth, we surely must learn it from the ghosts of Kaibab deer and Chief Seattle.
If only it could talk, it looks as if it could tell tales of cattle drives, cow towns, campfires, shootouts - and gullible gunwriters.
They stacked the firewood in readiness for the evening campfire.
From arranging holiday wreaths and making bird biscuits to building campfires, all of these activities make for good old-fashioned fun.
The three set off on a road trip that consisted of tequila shots, flirting and ghost stories around the campfire.
As the week drew to a close, the camp assembled for a final campfire.
The film is fairly conventional in its execution, harking back to the westerns of everyone's youth with its evocative sunsets, campfire conversations and shoot-outs.
Around campfires that blazed in the bright sunshine old friends caught up on the events since last October's fair and discussed their plans for the next six months.
Our campfire we put on the topmost ridge, giving us an expansive, heart-lifting view toward the west.
Trosley's next event, an evening of Russian folk music round a campfire, is taking place on Saturday.
We lit our campfire as darkness fell .
As you command, Wildmage," he answered tonelessly, turning away back to the campfire. Tran Siberian
There, around a campfire, his boyhood games of piracy and Robin Hood met the tall tale and the demotic idiom.
As the rest of the party sat down near the campfire, Jonathan started moving away.
But as she sat herself down comfortably, she positioned herself facing the campfire.
Last week, two community newspapers in Howard County ran front-page, color photographs of a naked man tending a campfire.
Such glamorous camping experiences are dubbed "glamping" - a trend among vacationers who want to be in the wild but don't care to sleep on the ground, tromp in the dark to communal bathrooms and cook over campfires. USATODAY.com News
Think of it more like a campfire – you don’t get the hottest temperatures until after the fire has died down and the internal temperatures of the combustibles are also heated. Think Progress » Rumsfeld Exploits 9/11 To Defend Failed Iraq Policy
By its side, we toasted marshmallows over the campfire and gazed at the star-studded night skies.
I could tell you how wonderful it was to sit around a campfire and sing all those old songs.
He was quiet as he sat at the campfire those nights, staring fixedly at the flames.
There were after-dinner drinks round the campfire in the Okavango, under a star-studded sky.
And, horses can rest standing up, by locking their knee called a stifle joint in place, which explains why cowboys in the many Westerns movies we've watched are lounging at the campfire when their horses are up and willing to go. Undefined
It wasn't true of course, but it made an amusing story to tell over the campfires.
A log on the campfire near us cracked and collapsed, making sparks fly up into the air.
Take extra care when having campfires / barbecues in the countryside, as fire spreads very rapidly over open ground.
Evidence of campfires dot the area, obviously the ‘bushers’ like to be comfortable while indulging themselves.
Parents and kids alike will enjoy the sounds of a crackling campfire at dusk and of birds calling as the sun rises.
It also captured that late night urgency, buzzing from pub to club to cafe, those Important Conversations like a campfire on an empty beach, weaving dreams of the future until the streetlights gave way to the dawn, and then the final trudge home (or sprint home fueled on booze and kebab). Zornhau: The Middle Ages
A little seasoning, butter and lemon juice, double wrap in foil and put em on a grill or campfire. Any good recipe ideas for crappies or perch besides breading and frying them?
He had paced by the campfire the night before, kicking at the dirt with his boots, swishing at the flames with a long tree branch.
It's that time of year again ... the time when we pre-empt our usual Friday Talking Points column here and instead gather 'round the virtual campfire and shove a metaphorical flashlight under our chin, and proceed to tell two tales of horror guaranteed to make your blood run like ice water in the veins, no matter which side of the political divide you hail from. Chris Weigant: Terrifying Hallowe'en Nightmares, Left And Right
In halting English his campfire host told about his dream of settling there amidst the oaks and chaparral, irrigating a vineyard and harvesting honey.
It's like sitting around a campfire, listening to someone tell a ghost story in a monotone.
In the forest there is no shortage of kindling, sticks, short logs or anything else needed to kindle a vigorous campfire and keep it burning effortlessly.
We hunkered down round the campfire, toasting marshmallows.
His prey is the charred remnants of a campfire set along a trail in the heart of this tinder-dry wilderness area.
Should Manfred ever break down in the wilderness he would always have a ready supply of kindling to hand for a warming campfire. AMAGANSETT
The cracking campfire threw warm, dancing light over everything, shadows flickering at the edges.
Even as the credibility of the campfire story has declined, however, it has still often been invoked, especially by public speakers and in informal and nonofficial publications about Yellowstone.
A few lights from campfires at the canyon campground flickered in the distance.
The trio head out for a campfire singalong and a fun packed adventure, but can they find the Lost Candy mine?
Ash from incense censers, campfires and fireplaces can be used but I don't recommend them.
Suddenly, in the lee of a large dune, she spotted the glow of a campfire.
Stepping back in time, Edison broke a bamboo fishing rod while angling near Rawlins and that night he threw it on the campfire.
Around the campfire, the roadies told tales of their past adventures with the Dolls in Louisiana.
Memories of dust, droving, campfires and wide-open stretches of bushland came flooding back for Alf McCarley last month.
For thousands of years, people have been huddled around the campfire, telling stories.
Drunken college students strum untuned strings and shout incoherent lyrics into flames of illegal campfires. Johnny Mercer's Pier
Phineas Brock stretched out atop his bedroll beside the campfire, folded his arms under his head and gazed up at the crowded night sky.
The individual scrolls, which extend in some cases to 9m unrolled, look not unlike charcoaled arboreal limbs left at the bottom of a campfire. In search of Western civilisation’s lost classics « Isegoria
All meals are cooked over a campfire and every night is spent beneath a tarp.
Beans and franks are fine for some but these staples of campfire grub don't have to make an appearance on your holiday menu.
The blaze has burned 486 square miles of ponderosa pine forest, driven by wind gusts of more than 60 mph since it was sparked on May 29 by what authorities believe was an unattended campfire. Thousands ordered out of Ariz. town as fire nears
One camp I know eliminated its weekly campfires because too many campers complained that they were boring.
Warden, the young wife of John Van Warden, clad in rags, with marred and scarred and toil-calloused hands, bending over the campfire and doing scullion work-she, Vesta, who had been born to the purple to greatest baronage of wealth the world has ever known. Page 4
I remember sitting around the campfire at a corporate off-site, roasting a marshmallow and thinking, ‘What is this geezer talking about?’
On Saturday night, after enjoying the campfire, we noticed a few stars twinkling through the hazy sky.
You performed at your coffee house, or did a skit around a campfire.
Forget about humping a heavy pack, cooking over a campfire, drinking brackish water from a stream.
Our guides will share their stories, and they'll teach us songs and social dances at our nightly campfires.
He spies a campfire and walks over to it; underneath a rock outcropping, two men are taking refuge from the rain.
We camp and cook on a campfire. Times, Sunday Times
He yawned and stretched before rekindling his campfire.
Her mother taught her how to fish, dig for worms, catch seaworms, and swim, and then at night her mother, uncles and aunts would gather all the children around the campfire for a night of yarning.
Some of my favorite albums consist of campfire singalongs by bands with modest acoustic guitar chops, cute names and even cuter accents.
The stories have the exaggerated feel of campfire yarns, amusing anecdotes you'd tell your buddy, but they are told from behind the standing mics, with guitars strapped in place.
She lay down on the grass by our campfire pit.
reddened faces around the campfire
Then we walked on, hand in hand, and finally saw the light of our campfire. Times, Sunday Times
Seeing as I was mounted, Reese turned to the dying campfire.
It is a fitting way to start an evening around the campfire yarning about Rex's exploits and adventures - intrepid journeys of exploration by the bushman and naturalist many call the founder of Australia's outback safari industry.
Many flavors are mixed together in this meal and many smells from the environment, such as a campfire, strong coffee, fresh air, help enrich them.
Around the campfire they would narrate tale after tale.
There were, to be sure, evening campfires with stories told in the camaraderie of the moment, and feasts and merriment when the travellers returned to the post after a year in the wilderness.
Forged discharge papers, wildebeests stampeding patrols - these tales are told casually around campfires and on drives across the veldt.
he collected dry sticks for a campfire
He set his equipment beside the campfire, patted Tyler's head enough to make him just start to rouse, then flashed a wicked grin before moving to the shadows.
Raclette is the signature dish of Swiss Alpine cuisine and the fondue-style melted cheese traces its origins back to shepherds who used to scrap hot cheese off a wheel in front of a campfire.

How To Use Campfire In A Sentence

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