Sample Sentences forconflagration (editor-reviewed)
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She sparked the current conflagration by releasing the report.conflagration = fire (figuratively)
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Out on Bluestone Road he thought he heard a conflagration of hasty voices—loud, urgent, all speaking at once so he could not make out what they were talking about or to whom. (source)conflagration = a large, violent, uncontrolled event
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They were coated with ice; the thick German socks were like sheaths of iron half-way to the knees; and the mocassin strings were like rods of steel all twisted and knotted as by some conflagration. (source)
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Tally felt the heat still rising from the bed, the straw mattress and thick quilts fuel for the conflagration. (source)conflagration = large, uncontrolled fire
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This paying back of the antiseptic government for its literary terrors and conflagrations. (source)conflagrations = large, violent, uncontrolled events -- especially fires
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The stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us.† (source)
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And the only way to do that is with a true conflagration—flames stoked by blood.† (source)
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The new buildings are of stone or brick, which will, one hopes, make them less prone to conflagrations.† (source)
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I spun around in time to see a bag of garbage, into which I'd tossed the match I'd used to light the stove, flare into a small conflagration.† (source)
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The use of some kind of accelerant, like gasoline or alcohol, seems to be indicated in the conflagrations; however, no traces of any accelerant have yet been found.† (source)
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She had sensed the truth of it long ago, Dany thought as she took a step closer to the conflagration, but the brazier had not been hot enough.† (source)
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This will prevent all conflagrations for the future.† (source)
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And all we can hope for now is to prevent this from erupting into general conflagration, to salvage what we can of the key bloodlines.† (source)
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So we stood round our engine, jostled one another, expressed our sentiments through speaking-trumpets, or in lower tone referred to the great conflagrations which the world has witnessed, including Bascom's shop, and, between ourselves, we thought that, were we there in season with our "tub," and a full frog-pond by, we could turn that threatened last and universal one into another flood.† (source)
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Everywhere we looked as we approached the hogback ridge that marked the terminus of the forest, we could see seedpods and cones burst open with new life for the various fire species that had died in the conflagration of the previous two nights.† (source)
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You are cultured and intelligent, Ivan, and you surely understand that the world is not destroyed by villains and conflagrations, but by hate and malice and all this spiteful tattling.† (source)
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