How to Use firehouse in a Sentence

firehouse

noun
Definition of firehousenext
  • The highway, the path back back to the firehouse, was aflame.
    — Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Growing up, all the kids would run to the firehouse when the alarm rang.
    — Alix Strauss, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Some of which, such as the beloved Slimer, are still living in the firehouse.
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2024
  • In 2020, Pham learned about the prison’s firehouse program while out on the yard.
    — Dustin Gardiner, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Aug. 2021
  • In many ways some will do better in a home than in the firehouse.
    — Charles J. Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 13 Apr. 2021
  • The bell was made from church and firehouse bells from around the city and first rang on New Year’s Eve 1896.
    — Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 23 May 2024
  • He was ordered to stay away from the firehouse and the woman.
    — Meghan E. Irons, BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2018
  • He has been ordered to stay away from the woman and the firehouse.
    — Meghan E. Irons, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2018
  • Tuesday took her back to the brick firehouse just up the road from Sandy Hook.
    — The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 29 May 2022
  • When Adrien and Vincent get to the firehouse, the movie shifts gears and becomes a thriller.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Masochists love the turn to the hills at the Newton firehouse 17 miles in, when the business part of the race begins.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2020
  • This is the first time that the firehouse has raffled off a firearm to raise money.
    — David Anderson, baltimoresun.com, 17 Mar. 2021
  • The station is a three-floor old firehouse built around 1917.
    — New York Times, 1 July 2022
  • The monument is near the city's main firehouse at Beaver and LaSalle streets.
    — Don Stacom, Courant Community, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Janusek said while standing in the firehouse at 83 E. Joe Orr Road.
    — Howard Ludwig, Daily Southtown, 26 Apr. 2018
  • The child was brought to a firehouse in south Sacramento on June 30.
    — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 2 July 2019
  • There are three floors of space to spread out in this old Chicago firehouse.
    — Darcel Rockett, chicagotribune.com, 16 Sep. 2020
  • The suspect, holding a knife, grabbed the woman as the rest of the firehouse crew rushed from the kitchen to the vehicle bay area.
    — John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 4 June 2022
  • As the Janus family prayed, Kramer and his crew headed back to the firehouse.
    — Chicago Tribune, 22 Sep. 2022
  • The victim was staying overnight at the firehouse in the summer of 2017 to help with any calls for service.
    — Erika Butler, The Aegis, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Disney, who kept an apartment above the Main Street firehouse, got locked in and had to yell for help.
    — Scott Sandell, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2022
  • The chief stood in the firehouse bay with Koerbler, where the department’s three green-and-white firetrucks sat lined up.
    — Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Typically, the inside of the fruit is left out at the firehouse (not for long) as a snack.
    — Erik S. Hanley, Journal Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Jaina Lee Ortiz heads the cast as the lieutenant in a Seattle firehouse.
    — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Plumes of smoke could be seen from the firehouse before firefighters rushed to the scene, Brown said.
    — Andrew Jeong, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Michael spent much of his early childhood at the firehouse.
    — Boone Ashworth, Wired, 2 Dec. 2021
  • The firehouse was left as a pile of debris and twisted metal.
    — New York Times, 16 Dec. 2021
  • The box, like other tools inside the firehouse, exists to save lives.
    — Holly V. Hays, The Indianapolis Star, 17 June 2021
  • The episode begins with Gerrard and Buck on the driving range, where the captain reveals that mandatory budget cuts are coming to the firehouse.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 1 Sep. 2024
  • Newman was also a full-time firefighter and maintained his schedule at the firehouse while filming the show.
    — Becca Longmire, People.com, 22 Oct. 2024

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