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begin to smoke
After the meal, some of the diners lit up -
arouse or excite feelings and passions
Wake old feelings of hatred
The refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the world
The ostentatious way of living of the rich ignites the hatred of the poor
How To Use fire up In A Sentence
- The president knows his task is to fire up the delegates.
- Areas linked to longer-term memory storage also fire up. Times, Sunday Times
- His very body had waxed old in lowly service of the Lord — in tending the fire upon the altar, in bearing tidings secretly, in waiting upon worldlings, in striking swiftly when bidden — and yet had remained ungraced by aught of saintly or of prelatic beauty. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Was this a calculated snub of Europe -- since snubs of Europe still seem to fire up the type of people who think Sarah Palin is a jim-dandy candidate for VP -- or at least a calculated snub gone somehow wrong, like John Kerry's botched joke? Steve Kettmann: View From Europe: Is McCain Losing It?
- Time to fire up the blancher and put another bag of beans in the freezer for T's lunches this winter ... :o Archive 2005-09-01
- “Fire upon him!” said the Lady of Lochleven; “if there be here a true servant of his father, let him shoot the runagate dead, and let the lake cover our shame!” The Abbot
- The Spirit descends like tongues of fire upon all people: women and men, old and young, even upon those at the very bottom, maidservants and menservants.
- And the tactic pays off as Fire Up The Band just holds off the fast-finishing The Tatling to win by a neck.
- The room is cold, poke the fire up a little.
- Cheerful customers can then walk in and fire up their laptops straightaway, without fuss.