fire

["]Then I slipped up again with a box of matches, fired my heap of paper and rubbish, put the chairs and bedding thereby, led the gas to the affair, by means of an india-rubber tube, and waving a farewell to the room left it for the last time." / "You fired the house!" exclaimed Kemp. / "Fired the house. It was the only way to cover my trail – and no doubt it was insured.["]

If you fire the pottery at too high a temperature, it may crack.

Till my bad angel fire my good one out.

The first, obvious choice was hysterical and fantastic Blanche – had there not been her timidity, her fear of being ‘fired’ […].

Don't be hesitant to fire a client - cull out the deadwood. If a client doesn't meet the above criteria, you are better off without him. You don't do your best work for a client you'd rather not have.

We will fire our guns at the enemy.

Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes.

The RCS thrusters fired several times to stabilize the tumbling spacecraft.

`Now are you both ready?' I said, as people do when they are going to fire a mine.

Andrey Arshavin equalised with a superb volley into the corner before Nicklas Bendtner coolly fired Arsenal in front.

When a neuron fires, it transmits information.

He answered the questions the reporters fired at him.

The event handler should only fire after all web page content has finished loading.

to fire the soul with anger, pride, or revenge

Inexperienced girl as I was, I fired at the idea of becoming his dupe, and fancying, perhaps, that there was more in merely answering his note than it would have amounted to, I said — "That kind of thing may answer very well with button-makers, but ladies don't like it. […]

to fire the genius of a young man

to fire a boiler

[The sun] fires the proud tops of the eastern pines.