Thesaurus results for CAMPFIRE

campfire

noun

Definition of campfire

as in bonfire

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Recent Examples of campfire Milkshake For something even sweeter, the chain is bringing together all the flavors of the fan-favorite campfire treat to its signature milkshake. — Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 12 Aug. 2026 Learn to identify the tracks beneath your feet, discover the medicinal uses of native plants, understand how to approach animals downwind, and spend your evenings around the campfire beneath a sky ablaze with stars. — Nicola Shepherd, Travel + Leisure, 11 Aug. 2026 Grylls cuts off the animal’s tongue with a knife and boils it over a campfire. — Erin Jensen, USA Today, 9 Aug. 2026 The pollution is expected to drift into the Bay Area, stealthily diminishing air quality without the signature campfire smell associated with wildfire smoke, according to Anthony Edwards, the San Francisco Chronicle’s newsroom meteorologist. — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for campfire

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Noun

But the island’s class divide isn’t just about dirt bike races for glory and bonfire fistfights anymore.

— CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 21 Aug. 2026
There may be fewer seafood cookouts and bonfires, but the weather is lovely and there’s still plenty to do.

— Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of bonfire

Noun

This summer, the Steel City has seen wildfire smoke from Canada, unusually hot temperatures due to heat domes and severe weather that's brought tornadoes to neighboring counties.

— Mariyam Muhammad, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026
Although the Timber Fire is the third-largest wildfire to burn so far this year anywhere in California, not a single structure has burned.

— Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of wildfire

Noun

Similarly, a major firefighting operation was underway in southwest Germany near the village of Traisen, where the heat sparked a forest fire in an area that also contained unexploded ordnance.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 June 2026
This Anglican example near Beaufort, South Carolina, was built in the 1740s, but was largely destroyed by a forest fire in 1886.

— Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 17 June 2026

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