Tom stoked up his oven with the wood he had gathered.

Stoked by drought-parched vegetation and triple-digit temperatures, the Carr Fire has killed six people, destroyed 1,567 homes and other structures and blackened 131,896 acres (53,376 hectares). It ranks as the sixth most destructive California wildfire on record.

Anti-foreign sentiment is often stoked by the Chinese government in order to bolster cheap nationalism.

I held her hand and stoked it with my thumb.

Yanni stoked Skura's hair softly.