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Definition
a very intense and uncontrolled fireor:
a place that is hell-like (terribly hot or full of suffering)
- The elevator door opened to reveal an inferno.
inferno = a very intense and uncontrolled fire
- like a scene from Dante's "Inferno".
- Then again—this was the second circle—it was like the Inferno—if neither he nor Mordred had really set the misery in motion, who had been the cause?T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
- The animals had fled just in time to save themselves from the inferno!Laura Esquivel -- Like Water for Chocolate
- I had managed to resist, the inferno with a certain integrity, but when I felt so much support, I broke down.Isabel Allende -- The House of Spirits
- White-hot flames burst from his throat and chest and stomach, sweeping over his body like an inferno.Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
- A torch was thrown onto the bubbling pitch, and an orange pillar of greasy flames roared up in the opening, engulfing the Urgals in an inferno.Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
- Then, after I discovered the inferno you were in, I got you assigned to my unit.Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
- Especially when the elevator was silent and shut and the ninth floor was an inferno and the fire kept pouring in the windows.Margaret Peterson Haddix -- Uprising
- Hurt Village had become an inferno of gangs and drugs and crime.Michael Lewis -- The Blind Side
- The inferno blazed behind him and his face was covered in soot and blood.Nicholas Sparks -- Safe Haven
- Jason didn't see how even fireproof Leo could survive in that inferno, but he had to hope.Rick Riordan -- The Blood of Olympus
- Over the last month I had pulled a woman from a blazing inferno.Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
- It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.Veronica Roth -- Allegiant
- Rage billowed in her chest, as if there were flames inside her that needed only fury and grief to blaze into an inferno.Kass Morgan -- The 100
- Queen Alysanne and Lady of Silk, still locked together, were a ranging green inferno, drifting downriver and dragging pieces of Lady's Shame.George R.R. Martin -- A Clash of Kings
- After describing the inferno, the paper stated: "The fire broke out on ....Jim Murphy -- The Great Fire
- And here, in this inferno of luggage, was White Fang deserted by the master.Jack London -- White Fang
- 'If you and I have survived this inferno for over five years,' he replied, 'it's obviously God's will for us to live.Wladyslaw Szpilman -- The Pianist
- Inevitably it was he whom I saw burning in the roaring inferno of eternal damnation.Rudolfo Anaya -- Bless Me, Ultima
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