Crossword-Solution: STOKING
We have 9 clues for the answer “STOKING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Adding fuel to | 1 answer |
| Feeding, as a fire | 1 answer |
| Fireman's function | 1 answer |
| Son enjoying a spliff, adding more to burn | 1 answer |
| Stirring up the fire. | 1 answer |
| Stirring up, as resentment | 1 answer |
| Tending, as a fire | 1 answer |
| Feeding | 2 answers |
| Stirring up | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EATRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with STOKING (5)
Before blackening the fire with a stoking of coal he pulled up a wooden Bushmills box, turned off the electric bulb overhead, and sat there for a final pipe, watching the rosy shine of the grate.
Harold, anon staggering under armfuls of leaves, anon stoking vigorously, was discernible only at fitful intervals.
Bill Brown pondered this a long time, perhaps four seconds; then he fell to stoking in coal, and he screwed her up another notch, and he eased her running parts with the oiler.
You know, too cold to fish, mostly sitting around the house, stoking a fire." "Right," William said, knowing he couldn't just pop Byron's cap open without a little playing.
After trying in vain to find a way of stoking that stove, for it was a cold night, I got up and walked about the room.
Quotes with STOKING (3)
Lignin, the stuff that prevents all trees from adopting the weeping habit, is a polymer made up of units that are closely related to vanillin. When made into paper and stored for years, it breaks down and smells good. Which is how divine providence has arranged for secondhand bookstores to smell like good quality vanilla absolute, subliminally stoking a hunger for knowledge in all of us.
Food, the stoking-up process, the keeping alive of an individual flame, the process that begins before birth and is continued after it by the mother, and finally taken over by the individual himself, who goes on day after day putting an assortment of objects into a hole in his face without becoming surprised or bored.
After simmering years of censorship and repression, the masses finally throng the streets. The chants echoing off the walls to build to a roar from all directions, stoking the courage of the crowds as they march on the center of the capital. Activists inside each column maintain contact with each other via text messages; communications centers receive reports and broadcast them around the city; affinity groups plot the movements of the police via digital mapping. A rebel army…
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1952–2018).