Significados de smother the flames en inglés

People pushed him to the ground and tried to smother the flames.

Everyone not manning the sweeps dashed to help smother the flames.

However amicable this arrangement seemed, it did not smother the flames of discord.

There was no large source of water nearby, no way to smother the flames.

Down into the earth he went to smother the flames and then up again.

Daddy was horrified, of course, dragging her to the curtains, trying to smother the flames.

People had come rushing up to smother the flames.

Les, muttering wrathfully, hauled the bedclothes off the recumbent Larry and used them to smother the flames.

Throwing water over everything would have made matters worse, so blankets were used to smother the flames.

She yanked a tablecloth from under a miniature display table and set about helping April smother the flames.

He barely managed to roll over far enough to smother the flames on his robe, then fell back.

But she'll make a big blaze before they manage to get enough water going to smother the flames.

Though he'd never had a hangover, he somehow knew that ice cream would smother the flames in his stomach.

The women vainly endeavored to smother the flames; and, after some unpleasant scenes, my father was the first to quit the society.

Stone golems strode unflinchingly into burning buildings past saving, and pulled them down, using the weight of the rubble to smother the flames.

He can be seeing rolling on the ground in an effort to smother the flames as a group of people rush over to help.