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If Patagonia’s notorious winds dissipate, there are even nightly bonfires and asado-style barbecues by the sea.—Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 16 Apr. 2025 Watch your kids surf their first wave or learn something entirely new at the Ocean Explorers kids club, and make new family memories together over s’mores beach bonfires.—AFAR Media, 15 Apr. 2025 The bonfire of the Teslas: Political violence and the Left
That will be a serious slog over the next three-plus years, with the Democratic brand in poor shape.—David Mark, The Washington Examiner, 28 Mar. 2025 The wedding weekend began on Thursday night with a bonfire on the beach.—Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 17 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bonfire
Word History
Etymology
Middle English bonefire a fire of bones, from bon bone + fire
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