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noun
flaming petroleum or the like, as employed against an enemy in warfare.
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Origin of liquid fire
First recorded in 1860–65
Words nearby liquid fire
liquidator,
liquid compass,
liquid crystal,
liquid-crystal display,
liquid ecstasy,
liquid fire,
liquid glass,
liquid gold,
liquidity,
liquidity event,
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How to use liquid fire in a sentence
But what is there more irresponsible than playing with the fire of an imagined civil war in the France of today?
The cameraman was reporting on the factory catching fire when the inevitable happened.
Lady Edith is so sad that her sadness nearly set the whole damned house on fire.
Total oil production figures include crude oil, natural gas liquids, and other liquid energy products.
Maybe Mary is being more realistic about a second marriage—but is it too much to ask for a little fire?
"A camp-fire would hardly flash and die out like that, Sarge," he answered thoughtfully.
She got up and stood in front of the fire, having her hand on the chimney-piece and looking down at the blaze.
The fire had been heaped over with earth—to screen it from prying eyes, I suppose, while the good work went on.
But, as the keel of the boats touched bottom, each boat-load dashed into the water and then into the enemy's fire.
The men, whose poniards his sword parried, had recourse to fire-arms, and two pistols were fired at him.
British Dictionary definitions for liquid fire
noun
inflammable petroleum or other liquid used as a weapon of war in flamethrowers, etc
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