How To Use Conflagration In A Sentence
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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.
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Are we today in some twilight zone before a new conflagration?
Times, Sunday Times
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While the fire is still burning, fire crews attending the scene have brought the conflagration under control.
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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.
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The heat and concussive force of the airbursts produced the expected results, instantly engulfing the rebel base in an apocalyptic conflagration.
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[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
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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
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But his efforts risk another conflagration.
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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.
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These companies encouraged positive precautions to prevent fires by the design and construction of buildings, and to deal rapidly with conflagrations.
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No mild saki for them, but square faces illicitly refilled with corrosive fire that flamed through their veins and burst into conflagrations in their heads.
Chapter 16
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His theory does not adequately account for the dual powers of divine conflagration and divine grace.
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Paris they looked back they saw an immense blaze in the distance, and the heavens aglare from east to west with the conflagration.
The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette
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In order to preserve these forest-trees, the underbrush, which is liable to make a conflagration in a dry season, should be removed generally, and the view of the great features be left unimpeded.
Our Italy
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Both areas transformed into renascent military fronts against Israel, building to a series of violent conflagrations in 2006 and 2009, respectively.
Adam Chandler: Is There an Israeli Left Left?
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This does not mean, however, that the jockeying for advantage between these two bourgeoisies has ended, nor that the threat that their rivalry could spin out of control and into a conflagration has been lifted.
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Lacking gloriousness in themselves, they deny gloriousness to all mankind; too cowardly for whimsy and derring-do, they assert whimsy and derring-do ceased at the very latest no later than the middle ages; flickering little tapers themselves, their feeble eyes are dazzled to unseeingness of the flaming conflagrations of other souls that illumine their skies.
THE KANAKA SURF
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A couple on a bench become a woman's face; a peaceful walkway becomes a conflagration; a weeping widow morphs into an obelisk for an unknown soldier.
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So how did that affect you and what your strategy was in figuring out what a negotiation with him should be because if you believe in the apocalypse, then you believe you might die soon, and any conflagration is just further sign that yeah, the end is near, and that's a good thing.
'Stalling For Time' With An FBI Hostage Negotiator
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I trust this was done, as I myself observed the licking flames of the conflagration.
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That fire can become a huge conflagration, or it can be quickly put out.
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In forests that by nature burn lightly and frequently, putting out every fire can leave tinder to build up and fuel a much greater conflagration.
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He discusses the replacement of gentle landscape fires ignited by Aboriginal clans during tropical Australia's cool months with more intense and destructive summer conflagrations.
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Five provinces have declared for young Stadt, and there will be inundation, conflagration, constupration, consternation, and every sort of nation and nations, fighting away, up to their knees, in the damnable quags of this will-o'-the-wisp abode of Boors.
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
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The only Element she commonly dealt with was fire—in starfire and the matter-antimatter conflagration of her ship's engines.
My Enemy My Ally
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The kitchen shop on the high street went up in flames and so great was the conflagration that the entire building collapsed.
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Its reckless adventurism could have resulted in a nuclear conflagration.
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The protections about Sam locked into place, as the power that had been flung at the old man flared in a mock-conflagration of bael-fire.
Omnibus
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They were coated with ice; the thick German socks were like sheaths of iron half-way to the knees; and the mocassin strings were like rods of steel all twisted and knotted as by some conflagration.
To Build A Fire
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The real macher in the conflagration over forest fires is Mark Rey, the Agriculture Department undersecretary.
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Its regular conflagrations of sycamore and beech provide for lots of satisfying crunching about, getting you apple-cheeked and just chilly enough to appreciate going indoors - and what a welcome awaits.
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It was harbingered also by the terrible comet of January, which appeared in a cadent and obscure house, denoting sickness and death: and another and yet more terrible comet, which will be found in the fiery triplicity of Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius, will be seen before the conflagration.
Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire
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Six years later, a similar conflagration consumed the Opéra-Comique, destroying the score as Offenbach had left it.
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There was a real danger of provoking a general conflagration in the region, he said.
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Finally, what all this goes to demonstrate is that the values and objectives that the United States and Europe share are far more important than any of the inevitable divides that emerge from periodic conflagrations.
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But how long that process will take, and what will set off the final conflagration, is far from clear.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fire suppression builds up an unnatural accumulation of fuel that creates conflagrations far more implacable and catastrophic than nature's fire.
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It is a conflagration that burns with an intransigent force.
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In the divine realm, fire symbolizes the universal conflagration of the apocalypse which will destroy men's sinful bodies.
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Safety-conscious fire departments across the country are changing their policies, and will no longer risk firefighter lives to protect mere property in these conflagrations.
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Three months after the eruption, the ash and aerosol had spread to higher latitudes causing such vivid red sunset afterglows that fire engines were called out in several places, like New York, to quench the apparent conflagration.
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This movement of fire, the aliveness of the flames, the symphony of the conflagration, is everything it means to be a human being.
Writing Workshop: What are YOU Working on? | Write to Done
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Fire - in coronas, pillars or volcanic conflagrations - appears often, adding to the feeling of nature about to run amok.
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But there was no conflagration - this was a fantastic display of the aurora borealis.
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Some scientists argue about whether these conflagrations are really any bigger than the ones that came before, but nobody disputes the idea that controlled burning and brush clearing can reduce the likelihood of wildfire.
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The threat of a wider conflagration is real.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Republicans are content to watch fiscal and economic troubles of their own making burgeon into a conflagration, betting that an unsophisticated electorate will blame the current occupant of the White House come 2012.
Peter S. Goodman: No Secrets In America's Latest Economic Crisis: Weak Economies, Weak Leaders
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The incident has raised fears of a new regional conflagration.
Times, Sunday Times
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But all human efforts, all the lavish gifts of the emperor, and the propitiations of the gods, did not banish the sinister belief that the conflagration was the result of an order.
Tacitus on Mythicism
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That spot caught fire and the conflagration that resulted caused major damage to the building.
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The woman is besieged by conflagration the barbecue has been forcedly very tragic in the balcony.
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The firmamental conflagration faded away, and the soft night spread its shadows over the earth.
Yvette
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But his efforts risk another conflagration.
Times, Sunday Times
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None of them ever believed that they were at risk of getting into the middle of a nuclear conflagration.
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But the scale of the conflagrations over the past few years can only lead us to conclude that they are the consequence of environmental recklessness and bad management.
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They feared that a conflagration would quickly follow, devouring cities and killing millions.
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My hotel had some interesting inmates, for a poor young creature, borne in from one of the burning houses, became a mother during the night; and a stout little lassie opened its eyes upon this waesome world during the excitement and danger of a Gorgona conflagration.
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
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The need for purgative violence in order to recreate the self hearkens back to the ‘fiery zeale’ of the universal conflagration.
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That one incarnation of Jack, the unkin spearcarrier being sent in to rescue her, the resultant conflagration turning both him and Joey into something completely new, at the same time as it unleashes the bitmites on the world.
Notes From The Geek Show
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The 1933 Reichstag conflagration, the Gliwice Radio Tower invasion, the Pearl Harbor attack, and, yes, even the Tonkin Gulf Incident were ALL orchestrated events that served to galvanize an unsuspecting populace into supporting unpopular wars.
Suicide by F16 fighter jet?
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[and] brûnecg, _her broad sword with gleaming blade_, 1547. brûn-fâg, adj., _gleaming like metal_: acc.sg. brûnfâgne helm, 2616. bryne-leóma, w. m., _light of a conflagration, gleam of fire _: nom. sg.,
Beowulf
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To forestall a democratic counter-attack, the oligarchs set fire to the buildings around the agora, causing massive loss of property and risking a general conflagration.
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The light of that conflagration will fade away.
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There was a real danger of provoking a general conflagration in the region, he said.
Times, Sunday Times
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Like a meltdown in a nuclear power plant, the conflagration now threatens to take the whole examination system down with it.
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Ahorror scenario for Beijing is that beginning with Tibet, a conflagration develops.
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The use of some kind of accelerant, like gasoline or alcohol, seems to be indicated in the conflagrations; however, no traces of any accelerant have yet been found.
Eclipse
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Mass congregations for a religious purpose must be banned, to avoid such tragedies as well as to avoid communal conflagrations.
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From this small piece of tinder the conflagration arose: word spread that the cartridges were part of a wider British plot to convert the entire subcontinent to Christianity.
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Indeed, the conflagration of a single gram of antimatter particles merging with their normal matter siblings would release energy equivalent to about 40 kilotons of TNT, or enough to power nearly 5,000 households for a year.
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You can feel the heat of this conflagration over one hundred yards away and it burns all night to the sound of local teens puking up over the side of the fairground twister.
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According to me – They want the middle east to explode in conflagration – people slaughtered so they can reap billions on scant oil supplies and sub-par armaments produced by war profiteering companies.
Think Progress » Remembering Iraq.
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But, filled with misplaced bravado, I decided this was the right time for a proper conflagration.
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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.
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We could riddle our last ancient forests with logging roads and clearcuts, setting the stage for tomorrow's conflagrations, or we can restore natural fires to natural forests.
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After agreements were signed with other Muslim republics such as Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, and Kabardino-Balkaria, the danger of a broader conflagration was much weaker.
The Return
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The threat of a wider conflagration is real.
Times, Sunday Times
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They may succeed in turning a little local difficulty into a full-blown regional conflagration.
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I may not have mentioned my pyromaniac tendencies before, but one thing leads to another and so soon we had built not so much a bonfire as a conflagration.
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Two fuzees and a gallon of fuel oil turn it into a thundering conflagration towering 40 feet over our heads.
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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
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Outstanding Italian humanists of that epoch visited Byzantium in order to learn Greek and to buy old manuscripts, saved from pillages, conflagrations, and devastation of the invaded country.
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It was harbingered also by the terrible comet of January, which appeared in a cadent and obscure house, denoting sickness and death: and another and yet more terrible comet, which will be found in the fiery triplicity of Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius, will be seen before the conflagration.
Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire
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In fact, it was the service provided by the Phoenix in pumping salt water from the Bay while the municipal water mains were dry in a 40-square-block area, which enabled the SFFD to extinguish the major conflagration following the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.
The Fire Boats Are Essential Assets
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A faint reddish light betrays itself through some of the windows of the minster; by degrees it increases in vividness; until at length the flame from which it proceeds bursts fiercely forth, illuminating the adjacent towers, and mingled volumes of smoke, and masses of brilliant sparks, now rapidly ascend to the skies; a great portion of the roof of the building falls in; and the dreadful conflagration is at its height when the scene closes" (Altick 167).
Making Visible: The Diorama, the Double and the (Gothic) Subject
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After agreements were signed with other Muslim republics such as Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, and Kabardino-Balkaria, the danger of a broader conflagration was much weaker.
The Return
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So: the average such thrillertakes a handsome young virile protagonist, and a heroine notionally attractive according to the very limited logics of 'supermodels', and puts them through the paces ofa reassuringly familiar plot: set-up, small fight, increasing peril, climactic big conflagration.
Best of 2009
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Nothing was more entrancingly evocative than that final conflagration, exquisitely controlled, flickeringly vivid.
Times, Sunday Times
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One spark and the whole of your week's washing could start a conflagration.
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We could have cities of wood to be wiped out by conflagrations; we could build houses of mud and sticks for the gales to unroof like a Hottentot village.
The Iron Puddler
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Little did I know that my Brooklyn born and bred future wife was also witnessing, 50 miles to the west of me, this inceptive conflagration paired to Christmas music.
TV Yule Log Brings Joyous Memory
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Just as the mythological Norse Age ended in conflagration, so some of our scientists predict that our present universe will end billions of years from now, if we happen to be living in a contracting universe.
Mesoamerican Religion and Multiverses: Part One
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In doing so, he could be sure that the reference would invoke a powerful image, because theaters were notoriously fire prone and had, over the years, produced some spectacular conflagrations.
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The incident has raised fears of a new regional conflagration.
Times, Sunday Times
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Those last nights the conflagration had helled all Dublin.
At Swim, Two Boys
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It is a conflagration that burns with an intransigent force.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lacking gloriousness in themselves, they deny gloriousness to all mankind; too cowardly for whimsy and derring-do, they assert whimsy and derring-do ceased at the very latest no later than the middle ages; flickering little tapers themselves, their feeble eyes are dazzled to unseeingness of the flaming conflagrations of other souls that illumine their skies.
THE KANAKA SURF
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(There is also S. 1033 "For a Safe and Secure America" blogged here March 28 under the title "Senate Bill 1033, Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act" and an earlier blog entry on this same bill, March 26, "Immigration Conflagration") But here is a dab from the sponsoring Congressman's website:
HR 4437 Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005
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But how long that process will take, and what will set off the final conflagration, is far from clear.
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It is a sudden conflagration that burns with a fierce, intransigent force.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is a sudden conflagration that burns with a fierce, intransigent force.
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