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UK
/fˈaɪəstəʊn/
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[ US /ˈfaɪɹˌstoʊn/ ]
[ US /ˈfaɪɹˌstoʊn/ ]
NOUN
- a piece of flint that is struck to light a fire
- a sandstone that withstands intense heat; used to line fireplaces and furnaces and kilns
How To Use firestone In A Sentence
- The green crystal on the pommel was a firestone from the far reaches of the north, and it was rightly called, as its brilliant luster was bright enough to dim even the most glorious of stones.
- He spoke, too, of the quality of food at his university, the exquisiteness of the Institute, which has a small library, but choice - and can call upon the Firestone to fulfill all of the scholars’ more obscure academical desires.
- Sparks arose from the flint and firestone, and soon the torch became ablaze.
- The Firestone pitman eyed Al's scarlet Nomex jumpsuit and raven hair with amusement. Omnibus
- Maram peered over the crenel at the firestone where it lay among the bodies of fallen warriors thirty feet below him. THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART TWO OF THE EA CYCLE
- The resourceful colonists fought back with the last of their space-going technology while devising a series of long-term, biological defenses, chief among them, fire-breathing dragons that chewed phosphine-bearing rocks -- firestone -- to create their flames. Dragon's Fire
- Given that GM (Firestone and others) was complicit in dissolving the entire “trolley” industry, it seems like poetic justice. Oddsmaking an Auto Bailout | Heretical Ideas Magazine
- Certainly the self-shredding Firestone tires and their related media scandal did nothing to help the Explorer's image, as well.
- On Tria, at first, he was taken for just another wormrunner with a firestone to sell. THE BROKEN GOD
- Unlike the final round at Firestone Country Club last Sunday, when the two barely spoke to each other after leaving the first tee — "I think he said I have a Titleist (ball), and I said I have a Nike, good luck today, and that's pretty much it," Woods said — the two gabbed away all the way through Thursday's first round. Woods, Harrington can't seem to escape each other