STOKE in a Sentence

stoke

 v.  stir up fire; feed plentifully; supply a furnace with fuel

1  She bustled to the kitchen, stoked the wood-range, sang Schumann while she boiled the kettle, warmed up raisin cookies on a newspaper spread on the rack in the oven.

Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X

2  The usual sounds reverberated through the shell; Sands making up the fire; Candish stoking the boiler.

Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 13

1  The Pentagon won't yet say how the USS John S. McCain was rammed by an oil tanker near Singapore, but an information warfare specialist in the Navy doubts the collision stoke cyber threat fears that GPS systems can be spoofed by hackers.

2  The U.S. Supreme Court has invalidated most provisions of Arizona's controversial immigration law, in a move that promises to stoke the volatile political debate over how to deal with the more than 11 million illegal immigrants in the country.

3  As a Scout, Marisa learned how to light a fire, how to stoke it if it started to die down, and how to extinguish it completely.

4  Having stoked conflict, raised tension to breaking point and threatened invasion, he made a magnanimous concession.

5  He's been accused of stoking up racial hatred in the region.