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She sparked the current conflagration by releasing the report.conflagration = fire (figuratively)
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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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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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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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The influence of factious leaders may kindle a flame within their particular States, but will be unable to spread a general conflagration through the other States. (source)conflagration = a large fire (used metaphorically to describe the out-of-control spread of unhealthy passions)
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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)conflagrations = large, violent, uncontrolled events -- especially fires
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From a financial point of view, the war was a miraculous fire: a huge, alchemical conflagration, the rising smoke of which transformed itself into money.† (source)
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This will prevent all conflagrations for the future.† (source)
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The conflagration roared around him, entirely shrouding his body in a column of light.† (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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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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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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