[
UK
/ɐflˈeɪm/
]
[ US /əˈfɫeɪm/ ]
[ US /əˈfɫeɪm/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement
he was aflame with desire
his face all ablaze with excitement -
lighted up by or as by fire or flame
even the car's tires were aflame
candles alight on the tables
a night aflare with fireworks
forests set ablaze (or afire) by lightning
houses on fire
How To Use aflame In A Sentence
- Who dareth name the fiend?" croaked an awful voice, whereat Black Lewin halted, gaped and stood a-tremble, while beneath steel cap and bascinet all men's hair stirred and rose with horror; for before them was a ghastly shape, a shape that crouched in the gloom with dreadful face aflame with smouldering green fire. The Geste of Duke Jocelyn
- For a lunch of classic fare, choose the sausage served aflame on a small grill at the table. A Piece of Portugal
- Maybe "aflame" seemed to contain a slur against gays, but that doesn't explain replacing the strong verb "caved" with the weak "given in. Blogs buzzing about religion and Microsoft.
- Time may be called a relativistic dimension or a mythic Burning Wheel but it is also the Bridge aflame behind us all. Do you ever read writing?
- Somebody set the warehouse aflame.
- Aflame with the idea of conjugal bliss as a veritable religion, in the 1930s he tried to create a whole "" Hilda Chapel '' full of paintings on the joys of married life. Love Affair, With Paint
- he was aflame with desire
- Is it possible," Holden probed, `for this craft to set the world aflame, then? ANTI-ICE
- Any sentient being would have called the "demonologist" as soon as the Ouija board went aflame for no reason. Movie City News
- In the tradition of really silly cod spy thrillers, the villains are out to set the world aflame and xXx will have to use all of his powers and lots of high tech stuff to save us all.
