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Meanings of grassfire in English

An uncontrolled fire in a grassy area.

Synonyms
Examples for "prairie fire"
Examples for "prairie fire"
1
Chairman Mao once said a single spark can start a prairie fire.
Radio NZ
2
The blaze was part forest fire, part prairie fire, and all inferno.
Death angel
3
The western fever became an epidemic that spread like a prairie fire.
Land of the Burnt Thigh
4
One of General Sherman's veteran soldiers was once describing a prairie fire.
The Story of Garfield / Farm-boy, Soldier, and President
5
There's nothing grander to look at than a prairie fire at night.
Lonesome Land
Usage of grassfire in English
1
I've seen firetrucks filling up there during grassfire season.
IT
2
Meanwhile an investigation is underway into a deliberately lit grassfire at Pimpama on the northern Gold Coast.
Radio NZ
3
The Warrego Highway at Minden in the Somerset region has also been closed due to a grassfire.
News.com.au
4
At least 15 homes have been lost in a fast-moving, out-of-control grassfire burning near Carwoola, in New South Wales.
Radio NZ
5
Starting a grassfire out here would not be cool, not with the town's new firetrucks stranded in Castle Rock.
Under the dome: a novel
6
Conscious thought was gone; his mind felt the way a late-summer grassfire looks as dusk comes on, all rose-red and smoke-gray.
IT
7
Around six cars were also destroyed at a shopping centre car park as grassfire changed direction in Taylors Lakes, in Melbourne's northwest.
News.com.au
8
If you smoke some rope, that's your business as long as you show up for work on time and don't start a grassfire.
Revival
9
And yet I sensed him somewhere near in those woods, watching me with his grassfire eyes, smelling of burnt matches and roasted fish.
Sympathy for the devil
10
Lucky thing, or there would have been grassfires racing away in both directions.
Under the dome: a novel
11
Beside State Highway 8 in Canterbury's Mackenzie District, fire crews have contained a number of grassfires.
Radio NZ
12
Judah stood at the edge of the cliff and looked down at the fumes that did not come from grassfires and howled.
Iron Council
Grassfire through the time