fireguard
IPA: fˈaɪrgɑrd
noun
- A mesh screen around a fire to prevent sparks or falling embers.
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Examples of "fireguard" in Sentences
- My nappies bore triangular singe marks where they had been dried on the fireguard.
- Labour's targets for fighting crime are about as much use as a chocolate fireguard
- This is why I believe OSPRE II is as much use as a chocolate fireguard in determining a persons suitibility to lead others.
- Cleber Dealencar/Warwick Properties Group Mr. Eden bought an antique French gate at a Paris auction, turning it into a fireguard.
- Durban 2 will inflame more violent antisemitism and the Jewish leadership, especially that of Britain, will be as helpless as a paper fireguard.
- (That the shield building for Westinghouse’s AP1000 turns out to be as effective as a chocolate fireguard is par for the course with nuke-builders.)
- An unsolicited view on Paul Rowen MP's prowess while working in his former council ward in Rochdale: He's about as much use as a chocolate fireguard.
- The Left will then realise when they haven't got work and their company's being sued by Ali Babah because he had to walk through a room where people were eating bacon, that voting in Obama was about as clever as putting a chocolate fireguard in from the fire.
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