How to Use firehouse in a Sentence

firehouse

noun
Definition of firehousenext
  • 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
  • The station is a three-floor old firehouse built around 1917.
    — New York Times, 1 July 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Rochelle said through a spokesman that she was hired to act as project manager in a city push to build a new firehouse.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Ecto-1, the Ghostbusters' vehicle, is even parked in the firehouse bay.
    — Emmy Abbassi, CNN, 12 Oct. 2022
  • How does your training fit into your shifts at the firehouse?
    — Greg Presto, Men's Health, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Firefighters at the firehouse across the street ducked for cover and witnessed part of the shooting.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 22 Mar. 2024
  • But he's been improving, and in January Sutter was able to get back to the firehouse for the first time in six months.
    — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 11 Apr. 2022
  • The firehouse, which once was the fire response headquarters for the entire city, closed in early 2020.
    — Kenneth R. Gosselin, courant.com, 7 Oct. 2021
  • One is a firehouse with firemen, and there’s a hospital.
    — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Around the firehouse, Butrim was known as a practical joker.
    — Lilly Price, baltimoresun.com, 2 Feb. 2022
  • This 1874 firehouse turned three-bedroom home stands on four lots near East Passyunk Crossing.
    — The Week Staff, The Week, 30 Oct. 2021
  • In the meantime, the firehouse was letting people fill up jugs and telling them to boil the water before drinking it.
    — Sue Halpern, The New Yorker, 12 July 2023
  • The exterior lights at the city hall and the neighboring firehouse have been changed from white to orange.
    — Brook Endale, The Enquirer, 21 Jan. 2022
  • The 8-year-old was also thrilled that Santa Claus would be delivering presents to them at the firehouse.
    — Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN, 25 Dec. 2022
  • His family says the chemical wasn’t even supposed to be in the firehouse.
    — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2023
  • And second, to let everyone know the firehouse was open for business, the town would set off the emergency alert sirens.
    — al, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Firefighters spend a third of their lives in the firehouse and often cook meals for one another.
    — Eleanor McCrary, The Courier-Journal, 22 Mar. 2024
  • So Tom Gaertner could be described as a firehouse brat, hanging out at the station while his father was on the job.
    — George Castle, chicagotribune.com, 17 Jan. 2022
  • Dishes like these make Ladder 4, which is housed in a century-old firehouse, feel like so much more than a wine bar.
    — Elazar Sontag, Bon Appétit, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The room was filled with a cloud of dust, created when the thin cupola of the California Hotel next door fell through the roof of the firehouse and tore through the floors below.
    — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Apr. 2022
  • They were brought to a nearby firehouse, where she was reunited with her sister.
    — Hartford Courant, 7 Sep. 2022

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