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burn brightly
Every star seemed to flare with new intensity -
become ignited
The furnace wouldn't fire
How To Use flame up In A Sentence
- A sugar maple, winch will flame up so brilliant orange in autumn it seems to warm the air around it.
- Running a candle flame up and down a twisted piece of dry hair. Times, Sunday Times
- Bambye de lamp, it go down an 'den it flame up bright, an' Lijah, he look at de cat an 'he think it biggah dan befo'. The Cat in Grandfather's House
- Every little while, however, one dog or another would flame up in revolt and be promptly subdued. The Covenant
- While they appetize, flame up the sirloins: a one-inch steak is about three minutes per side for rare, four for medium, five for well. The Swell Dressed Party
- Running a candle flame up and down a twisted piece of dry hair. Times, Sunday Times
- Running a candle flame up and down a twisted piece of dry hair. Times, Sunday Times
- Running a candle flame up and down a twisted piece of dry hair. Times, Sunday Times
- Macpherson rose as if he would go to the telephone, but instead (and he acted so quietly that I did not notice what he was doing until the thing was done), he picked up the sheet which he called his visiting list, and walking quite without haste, held it in the glowing coals of the fireplace until it disappeared in a flash of flame up the chimney. The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont
- He left me fuming, for his last mutteration, as he shook his lantern to stir the flame up a bit, was, "Knows a true man when he sees one. The Yeoman Adventurer