afire

How To Use afire In A Sentence

• William Safire used it in 1983, in fact, saying it was "bureaucratese for an office without work to do. Justin Snider: Rubber Rooms: Gone From New York City, But Alive Elsewhere?
• If your first thought on seeing one-of-a-kind lamps is "Interesting, but is it so amateurishly wired it will conflagrate, setting my home afire, destroying all my belongings, including my irreplaceable collection of back issues of the New York Times Home section?" then your fears will be assuaged by the knowledge that a creator of these particular lamps, Tom Blake, left, is a licensed New York City electrician who has worked on the Chrysler and Empire State Buildings. Post-gazette.com - News
• Thereupon he waxed distracted, with a heart afire for love of the chief damsel and repenting him that he had not stolen her plumery. Arabian nights. English
• Longtime residents recall seeing police cars overturned and set afire because the officers had dared tried to patrol here.
• You can send financial support to their World Headquarters and Main Mead Hall "For reasons of orthographic purity, we prefer to accept donations in Icelandic krona"; I trust all upholders of True English will join this brave cause, and I expect William Safire's next column to be in Anglo-Saxon. Languagehat.com: THE ORIGINAL ENGLISH MOVEMENT.
• C., dumped gasoline on the bodies and set them afire.
• When the heart is afire, some sparks will fly out at the mouth. 
• It contained a great hall but was considerably altered following afire in 1871.
• I fully expect to read a far more erudite explanation of our use of the word recalibrate by William Safire any week now. Liz Neumark: Have you used the word recalibrate this week?
• And in the end, the gambling theater is exploded and set afire.