How to Use fire engine in a Sentence

fire engine

noun
Definition of fire enginenext
  • As a pumper truck, the fire engine carries water and hoses to the scene.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 1 Dec. 2021
  • The lieutenant who was fired never got out of the fire engine, the chief said.
    — Mitch Smith, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Sheriff’s deputies blocked the road for a time to make room for fire engines and crews.
    — Luke Garrett, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2019
  • The dogs’ barks could be heard over the drone of the fire engines and construction equipment.
    — Cameron Knight, Cincinnati.com, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Images posted with the tweet showed a car pinned under the front bumper of the fire engine.
    — Rebekah Wahlberg, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Mar. 2021
  • One person suggested that crews should have used the fire engine to knock the car out of the way.
    — Teri Webster, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2020
  • As their names were read, a silver fire engine bell rang out for each of them.
    — Jess Nocera, baltimoresun.com, 11 Sep. 2019
  • The crew took Seamus with them in the fire engine, drying & warming him up on the way to his house.
    — CBS News, 19 Jan. 2023
  • By the time the fire engines rolled up, around 25 men were perched on ledges or dangling from windowsills.
    — Robert Klara, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2023
  • The burning question, of course, is whether the fire engine could run out of juice during a call.
    — CBS News, 12 Dec. 2019
  • And his favorite toy as a toddler was a ride-on fire engine.
    — Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com, 21 June 2018
  • The new fire engine is scheduled to arrive around May or June.
    — Melanie Feuk, Houston Chronicle, 10 Jan. 2020
  • An ambulance in front of the dump truck is smashed up against the back of a fire engine, which is resting against the right guardrail.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN, 30 July 2019
  • Santa will wave to youngsters from 1 to 4 p.m. as a fire engine drives him around town.
    — cleveland, 13 Nov. 2022
  • The berries vary from fire engine red to almost black, with matching crowns; always look for the crown.
    — Bon Appétit, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Scores of police cars, fire engines and ambulances lined both sides of the road.
    — The Courier-Journal, 14 May 2018
  • The off-roader is done up in fire engine red and is free of any chrome accents (even the badging is blacked out).
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 14 June 2021
  • When the first fire engine arrived, heavy fire and heavy black smoke was coming from the second floor.
    — Akira Kyles, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 18 Sep. 2019
  • The official says nine fire engines were trying to douse the flames leaping from the top floor of the building.
    — Fox News, 13 June 2018
  • When the first fire engine arrived, there was smoke showing from the attic.
    — Ruth Brown, idahostatesman, 5 July 2018
  • The firefighters piled into a fire engine and an ambulance and raced to the scene — and to their doom.
    — Bassem Mroue, Star Tribune, 23 Aug. 2020
  • In the video, the water is above Bachle’s waist and flowing into the cabin of a fire engine.
    — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 29 Sep. 2022
  • If this really is the end of the Netflix era, Stranger Things 4 threw the kind of Irish wake that requires a fire engine.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 5 July 2022
  • There were no injuries to the driver or passenger of the fire engine.
    — Madeline Ackley, The Arizona Republic, 13 Sep. 2020
  • Ten fire engines and about 70 firefighters were called for flooding in the area.
    — Derrick Bryson Taylor, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Fire trucks and fire engines could fight the fire from the street level along three sides of the school, Giannelli said.
    — Kimberly Fornek, chicagotribune.com, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Let’s hope the West has its fire engines ready should the conflagration spread.
    — Leon Aron, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2018
  • And, at the time of this writing, the fire engine red model is on sale for almost 40 percent off.
    — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 13 May 2022
  • The company would sell more than 300 Lohner-Porsche Mixte Hybrids, used as buses, trucks, and fire engines.
    — Bob Sorokanich, Robb Report, 26 July 2024
  • But another agent who was leading the fire engine brought the crew to the south side of the fence where firefighters apparently couldn’t reach the woman.
    — Alex Riggins, The Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2024

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