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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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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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)conflagration = a large, violent, uncontrolled event
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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 stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us.† (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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Clary, she thought, crawling toward Jace through the heart of the 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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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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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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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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The small fines that have been paid by members for absence at the monthly meetings have been apply'd to the purchase of fire-engines, ladders, fire-hooks, and other useful implements for each company, so that I question whether there is a city in the world better provided with the means of putting a stop to beginning conflagrations; and, in fact, since these institutions, the city has never lost by fire more than one or two houses at a time, and the flames have often been extinguished before the house in which they began has been half consumed.† (source)
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What would have been a minor fizzle in Earth's atmosphere became an uncontrolled conflagration in the container's pure oxygen environment.† (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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