fire engines
- plural of fire engine.
Example Sentences
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Beijing has refurbished the show-piece convention center and gifted coaches, mini-buses and fire-engines.
From Reuters • Nov. 3, 2018
All day the building�a laboratory of Consolidated Film Industries�burned like a pine torch while a crowd watched and fire-engines drenched the studios on each side of it with water.
From Time Magazine Archive
I suggested a number of improvements, such as fire-engines, better office buildings, better paved streets, and new gas-works.
From My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by Train, George Francis
In a short time fire-engines were on the way.
From The Ravens and the Angels With Other Stories and Parables by Charles, Elizabeth Rundle
Nearer it came, and nearer, and before the listener had changed his position, a squadron of dragoons passed the lodge on a hand-gallop, and were followed by fire-engines.
From Trevethlan (Vol 3 of 3) A Cornish Story. by Watson, William Davy
