How to Use firebreak in a Sentence

firebreak

noun

• That buys time for firefighters to dig and bulldoze firebreaks of bare soil.
  — Alec Luhn, WIRED, 10 Jan. 2025
• The doe stood at one end of the firebreak, stamping her foot, before taking off again.
  — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 23 Nov. 2020
• The greatest risk was that winds would blow embers across the firebreaks and ignite new blazes.
  — Time, 14 Oct. 2017
• For your first burn, light the edge of the downwind firebreak so that the flames creep slowly into the wind.
  — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 17 Mar. 2021
• The county created a fund for hundreds of men to work on firebreaks.
  — Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2025
• One of our cameras was set up on a firebreak below a ridgeline stand of old-growth longleaf pines.
  — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 1 May 2025
• An advancing inferno may call for hasty felling of trees to create firebreaks.
  — Albert C. Lin, The Conversation, 13 Mar. 2025
• When the sheriff told the family to leave, Mike stayed to create a firebreak and spray down the house.
  — Washington Post, 28 July 2021
• Neighborhoods can be buffered by seawalls for storm surges, levees for floods, firebreaks for wildfires.
  — Christopher Flavelle, Bloomberg.com, 2 May 2018
• Firefighters have taken advantage of the lull to cut firebreaks in dry forests and pile up soil to control the blaze.
  — Umair Irfan, Vox, 17 Nov. 2018
• The other is that despite high winds that fanned the flames, the area’s vineyards formed fairly effective firebreaks.
  — Mike Dunne, sacbee, 23 Oct. 2017
• Invest in brush clearance, firebreaks, water access and grid resilience in high-risk areas.
  — Teresa Liu, Daily News, 4 May 2026
• Police departments in violent cities have long talked of making a firebreak.
  — The Economist, 16 Apr. 2020
• Regulators have been busy cutting firebreaks in an attempt to control the spread of the crisis.
  — Heard Editors, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2023
• The fire plague kept moving north, and eventually crossed the highway like a forest fire jumping a firebreak.
  — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
• The area surrounding each is slashed and cleared with hoes to produce a firebreak to protect it from occasional wildfires.
  — Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2019
• Some vineyard owners decided to stay and fight back, spending days digging firebreaks and sleeping among their vines for safety.
  — Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2017
• There was already 15 feet of firebreak behind homes in the area, Santee Fire Capt.
  — Karen Pearlman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2020
• The majority of Napa’s wineries and vineyards (which served as firebreaks) were spared.
  — New York Times, 21 June 2018
• To widen the firebreak, the fire department, with the assistance of the military, turns to explosives.
  — WIRED, 15 June 2023
• The immense labor force needed to maintain the firebreak dried up with World War II.
  — Matthias Gafni, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Nov. 2020
• But measures to prepare for fire season, like digging firebreaks and clearing out dry grasses, are insufficient.
  — Niki Kitsantonis, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2023
• Winds squeezed through a mountain pass and blasted firebrands over natural firebreaks and a branch of the Feather River.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2019
• Biden, in his campaign, had presented himself as a firebreak, a barrier against the inferno of another four years.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2020
• For instance, animal trails have been proven to limit the spread of low-intensity wildfires by creating firebreaks.
  — Curtis Abraham, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2023
• Shock collars can compel grazing cattle to create firebreaks in the scrublands of the American West.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022
• Many of the roads selected are single-lane, primitive and unmaintained, cleared almost 100 years ago for timber haul or firebreak roads.
  — Bill Pollnow, Star Tribune, 2 June 2021
• To Dunn, protecting homes seemed within reach because the state had maintained agricultural buffers around cities, helping to serve as firebreaks.
  — Rob Davis, ProPublica, 7 Aug. 2025
• Delaney Park, better known as the Park Strip, was first cleared as a firebreak in 1917 and has served as parkland ever since.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 19 June 2022
• Thousands of unemployed men joined Civilian Conservation Corps camps up and down the state, building the firebreak in three years.
  — Anna Buchmann, SFChronicle.com, 20 Nov. 2020