The heat warms the air in and around the fire.
She floated, warming her hands around a tube of broth.
Warming my hands around some kahve, I thought it over carefully.
"There was a fire and a small group of people warming themselves around it," he said.
Lloyd was warming his hands around a cup of coffee.
It came to rest among the inner planets, warming themselves around the fire of the Sun and waiting for their stories to begin.
This time he did grin, warming the space around us.
Several children were warming themselves around it, holding big mugs of tea.
Warming her hands around the cup, she sat staring out at the cold sky.
But we use it to warm the air around the cells and expand the helium when that's needed.