conflagration

How To Use conflagration In A Sentence

• Lawrence Pietroni has created two uniquely alluring charactersRuby and Isaand spins a story that feels mythical or folkloric, that is driven by a mystery, throbs with tension, and ends in conflagration. Ruby's Spoon: Summary and book reviews of Ruby's Spoon by Anna Lawrence Pietroni.
• Are we today in some twilight zone before a new conflagration? Times, Sunday Times
• While the fire is still burning, fire crews attending the scene have brought the conflagration under control.
• The praises of the toy theatre have been a common theme for essayists, the planning of the scenes, the painting and cutting out of the caste, penny plain twopence coloured, the stink and glory of the performance and the final conflagration. Archive 2010-04-01
• The heat and concussive force of the airbursts produced the expected results, instantly engulfing the rebel base in an apocalyptic conflagration.
• [and] brūnecg, _her broad sword with gleaming blade_, 1547. brūn-fāg, adj., _gleaming like metal_: acc.sg. brūnfāgne helm, 2616. bryne-lēoma, w. m., _light of a conflagration, gleam of fire _: nom. sg., Beowulf
• MCINTYRE: Gates warned failure in Iraq could draw Syria, Iran, Turkey and even Saudi Arabia into what he called a regional conflagration. CNN Transcript Dec 5, 2006
• But his efforts risk another conflagration. Times, Sunday Times
• Cicero, on the other hand, it seems to me, after the manner of a widespread conflagration, rolls on with all-devouring flames, having within him an ample and abiding store of fire, distributed now at this point now at that, and fed by an unceasing succession. Archive 2010-03-01
• These companies encouraged positive precautions to prevent fires by the design and construction of buildings, and to deal rapidly with conflagrations.