Sample Sentences for
stoke
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(editor-reviewed)

stoke as in:  stoked the fire

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She took it upon herself to stoke the campfire whenever it began to dim.
stoke = add fuel or stir a fire to make it burn hotter
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    He was humming merrily as he stoked the fire.  (source)
    stoked = added fuel or stirred a fire to make it burn hotter
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    Stoke the fire and set a pot of water to boil.  (source)
    Stoke = add fuel to make burn hotter
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    Stoke that fire, heat that pot.  (source)
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    Brendan Stoked the Fire.  (source)
    Stoked = added fuel or stirred a fire to make it burn hotter
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    Stoking it, adding a log, he pretended not to watch the girl.  (source)
    Stoking = adding fuel or stirring a fire to make it burn hotter
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    Every two hours he got up during the night to stoke the fire.  (source)
    stoke = add fuel or stir a fire to make it burn hotter
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    Then I hear him laughing, a sadistic chuckle that stokes my defiance.†  (source)
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    On Mountview Street the trees are just of that color and scale Liv is talking about, and though it has been but a few days, the pleasing bulk and hang of the limbs makes me homesick for what lies in wait over the first rise of the street, and I feel doubly sorry for my carelessness in overstoking the fire.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "over-" in overstoking means excessive. This is the same pattern as seen in words like overconfident, overemphasize, and overstimulate.
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    SS bark out orders as the train engine is stoked with coal.†  (source)
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    With professional calmness, firemen in helmets were stoking the dripping engines.  (source)
    stoking = adding fuel to a fire to make it burn hotter
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    Stoke your furnaces and clap on full steam!  (source)
    Stoke = add fuel to make burn hotter
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    She stokes the fire of her hatred, feeding it tidbits about bigoted idiot Dina and spineless mushmouth Ralph, because she knows that just beyond the rage is a sorrow so enervating it could render her immobile.†  (source)
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    I'm excited about that, but here's what I'm really stoked about: I caught a blip from the MAV!†  (source)
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stoke as in:  feeling stoked

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By refusing to listen, she stoked their frustration and anger.
stoked = made stronger
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    That would be cool, and I think both Mel and Damien would be stoked—and God would be proud, too.  (source)
    stoked = excited
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    Stoked by the monster, it took him a long time to finish.  (source)
    Stoked = with feeling made more intense
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    He is so stoked about my first ride that he carries it around on his laptop and shows people all the time.  (source)
    stoked = excited
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    I was pretty stoked.  (source)
    stoked = excited
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    Stoked: More than excited  (source)
    Stoked = very excited
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    I mean, we did stay out until the cock woke up to stoke his crow.  (source)
    stoke = make feelings stronger
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meaning too rare to warrant focus

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    The 5:56 fast train to Stoke has been cancelled, so its passengers have invaded my train and it's standing room only in the carriage.  (source)
    Stoke = a name
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    Stoke Mandeville …. or somewhere.  (source)
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    Ten minutes later they were at Stoke Poges and had started their first round of Obstacle Golf.  (source)
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    I didn't explain the real reason to Bryant Stokes.  (source)
    Stokes = a name
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    "Haye Park might do," said she, "if the Gouldings could quit it—or the great house at Stoke, if the drawing-room were larger; but Ashworth is too far off!"  (source)
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    I drove to the only grocery store in town, called Stokes, and applied for a job bagging groceries.  (source)
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    And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going to Stoke Moran this day.  (source)
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    "Wait 'til they get a whiff of Jimmy Stokes' fastball," said the first man.  (source)
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    Stoke d'Urberville took her back to the lawn and into the tent, where he left her, soon reappearing with a basket of light luncheon, which he put before her himself.  (source)
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    Afterwards we took a street car to Davison-Paxon-Stokes Company, and then went to M. Rich and Brothers.  (source)
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    …haunt it, too; for it is a wild spot even here, what there is of it; for it does not go far to the south: it goes from here northward and west right over Paddington and a little way down Notting Hill: thence it runs north-east to Primrose Hill, and so on; rather a narrow strip of it gets through Kingsland to Stoke-Newington and Clapton, where it spreads out along the heights above the Lea marshes; on the other side of which, as you know, is Epping Forest holding out a hand to it.  (source)
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    But we could have done it all, and almost without losses, with a Stokes mortar.  (source)
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    Tom Oliver is a very clever fellow, and Charles Maddox is as gentlemanlike a man as you will see anywhere, so I will take my horse early to-morrow morning and ride over to Stoke, and settle with one of them.  (source)
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