aflame

[ UK /ɐflˈe‍ɪm/ ]
[ US /əˈfɫeɪm/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement
    he was aflame with desire
    his face all ablaze with excitement
  2. 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
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How To Use aflame In A Sentence

  • Faces aflame with drink, grotesque moustaches, pot bellies ... I seemed to have stumbled into a painting by Hogarth.
  • 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.
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