How To Use Flaming In A Sentence

Under the cover of darkness, exotic sports cars come alive with red-hot glowing brakes, flaming exhausts and sparks from contact as drivers battle both the elements and other drivers.
This is particularly true of the film's climax, which somehow manages to demolish several cop cars, and find Ellen clutching a parasail and jumping through flaming hoops in water skis, yet still be completely unfunny.
Facing off against Daredevil's way coolist foe of the day, Death-Stalker, the team-up had a great moment when the villain grabbed GR's flaming skull and was freaked to find that he wouldn't die. DAREDEVIL #102 Marvel Comics, 1973
Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart. Ralph Waldo Emerson
And it's so emotive, which isn't much helped by Richard Dawkins rather inflaming the issue to promote atheism. News from the House of Sticks -

Berndon shouted when he finally coaxed the small spark into a flaming fire.
Her great wiry nimbus of vermilion hair stood out like a flaming crown above her long slender neck.
Flaming Bridle was subsequently disqualified and placed last in the field of eight.
In particular, I can't stand the central atrium; it gives me a bad eighties feeling - of wine bars, terrycloth sweatbands, neon flamingos.
His important poems were mostly published at this time, in 1650 and 1655, in the collection which he named 'Silex Scintillans' (The Flaming Flint), a title explained by the frontispiece, which represents a flinty heart glowing under the lightning stroke of God's call. A History of English Literature
She looked to be in total bliss as her flaming red hair blew in the wind.
He became visibly annoyed when we offered him what was less obeisance than he expected and demanded and soon walked off with flaming cheeks, leaving us to the ministrations of his staff.
Taking a wider view can introduce a sense of wilderness – such as this picture of flamingos and wildebeest in Tanzania's Ngorongoro Crater.
From here you can watch as a herd of buffalo stroll past flocks of pink flamingos. The Sun
Each carried a whip and flaming torch with which to chivy both mortal offenders and recalcitrant gods.
A frog leaps off the bank into a shallow pond just as a hummingbird pauses for nectar from a flaming red salvia plant.
In each of them was a flaming wick, partly of asbestine flax, as of old in the temple of Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
With a smirk, he ran away before I could chuck a flaming briquette at him.
This time last year few thought things could get any worse and that an early summer soaking would be the prelude to a flaming June.
No flaming June this, there was more risk of frostbite. Times, Sunday Times
The stern grey walls of the city were silhouetted against the flaming sky as the sun set.
Her face was flaming but her body was still tingling with awareness.
However, the Las Vegas Four Seasons is right there on The Strip, right next to the Luxor, which kind of implicates it as one of those Vegas hotels - lobbies clanging with slot machines and crowded with wandering tourists clad in Reeboks, Dockers shorts, hooded sweatshirts tied around their waists and clear plastic visors embellished with flamingoes. Elvis Didn't Sing at the Wedding - Four Seasons Hotel, Las Vegas
Clearly this is still one of the most important, if not the most important factor controlling bill shape, otherwise we wouldn't have curlews, ibises, sword-billed hummingbirds, flamingos, crossbills, or all those oystercatcher polymorphs.
In the midst of the morning rush-hour his laughter drifted after her, curling round her senses and inflaming her still further.
The plane, which was full of fuel, scattered flaming fragments over a large area.
She squeaked and tried to get out of his embrace, her face flaming, but he just chuckled and leaned forward to whisper something in her ear.
For you, Christmas is about family and traditions, and you rather enjoy the rituals of going to church at midnight and turning off the lights before flaming the plum pudding.
The Flaming Lips are probably the only band who could get away with a meandering double album of prog rock jams. The Sun
There are wallabies, meerkats, flamingoes, maras and tamarin monkeys in both zoos.
We headed back, stopping to watch the area's famous pink flamingos in the silvery moonlight. Times, Sunday Times
One of the fluffy chicks takes some faltering steps under the watchful gaze of an adult flamingo.
God made a mess, remember, when he did the flamingo, which is an idiotic bird with legs that are far too long. BBC TopGear: Cars and Autos News
The burning winds of fundamentalism, the flaming anger of impressionable youth, claim many a victim.
Once the sack whirled about his head, twice, and then it arcked toward the galley, dropping to its deck unnoticed by men frantically cutting away the flaming sail. Conan The Unconquered
The shackles had fallen away and reflected the glow of the man's flaming hair.
You almost expected the former miners' leader to appear in George Street to lead the hundred or so striking firemen who gathered and swaggered along the road wearing their flaming caps and blasting the air with hooters.
His unabashed Eurocentrism would gladden George Will's wizened heart, but he hasn't yet outed himself as a flaming Italophile. Boing Boing
WACO (April 20, 2009) -- Residents from Waco to Madison County reported seeing a flaming object streaking through the western Central Texas sky Monday morning, but there is no confirmation yet what the object may have been. KWTX - HomePage - Headlines
Claude bucked under the impact, spinning backwards into the flaming wheelhouse. CORMORANT
He lives in the lonely lands where mighty rivers twist in long reaches between the barren bluffs; where the prairies stretch out into billowy plains of waving grass, girt only by the blue horizon, plains across whose endless breadth he can steer his course for days and weeks and see neither man to speak to nor hill to break the level; where the glory and the burning splendor of the sunsets kindle the blue vault of heaven and the level brown earth till they merge together in an ocean of flaming fire. Frontier Types
Already, scores of mercenaries were surrounding the camp, pelting it with flaming arrows and a whole assortment of javelins and throwing spears.
In summer evenings Mrs. Bolam could lie and watch the sun setting behind a castellation of sloping roofs and twisting chimneys with, in the distance, the turrets of St. Pancras St.tion darkening against a flaming sky. A Mind to Murder
The plane, which was full of fuel, scattered flaming fragments over a large area.
She wanted to breathe the cool breath of great winds coming over the water to cool this fierce fire of shame and horror fevering her soul, flaming in her delicate cheeks. Little Lost Sister
It ‘gave a rotundity to my person, a wave and curl to my hair, and perhaps led me to fancy pictorial illustration and flaming colours’.
Head teachers do not have an easy task keeping control without inflaming already heated emotions.
The entire café would also feel better if the skies parted, an angel descended, and smote him with a terrible flaming sword.
The workers were already very angry but he's after inflaming the whole situation now.
I grabbed my backpack and left, my cheeks still flaming.
An EC draft directive from Brussels may outlaw the use of the dye canthaxanthin in flamingo food -- and thereby turn the birds gray. Pass The Pepto
Most famous are the pink flamingos. Times, Sunday Times
Elmire tries to win a favor from Tartuffe by inflaming his lechery and trapping him in a compromising situation.
Long considered too time consuming and laborious, shadowbox flaming has risen from the depths of obscurity to become a retailer's dream.
We are alone until we stumble upon a flamboyance of flamingos (what a pleasing collective noun). Times, Sunday Times
It ‘gave a rotundity to my person, a wave and curl to my hair, and perhaps led me to fancy pictorial illustration and flaming colours’.
Well, I suppose if you work for the Diaz-Balart brothers, anybody to the left of Attila the Hun is a flaming liberal. Showing Them the Money
a sea ever calm, the shores of which were peopled with alcatras, * egrets, and flamingoes. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
It's an area of great natural beauty, home to pink flamingos and wild white horses. Times, Sunday Times
On that part of it where we first attempted to land there stood some very large birds, called flamingoes: these, from the reflection of the sun, appeared to us at a little distance as large as men; and, when they walked backwards and forwards, we could not conceive what they were: our captain swore they were cannibals. The Life of Olaudah Equiano Or Gustavus Vassa The African
For a short while the flaming phantasma lingered firm and orb-like, while the space between itself and reality grew to a hand's breadth; then slowly deliquesced. Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia
Wetlands are a lure for geese, swans, ducks, egrets, storks, herons and the icon of the Camargue, the pink flamingo.
Gloriana was the tallest of the three, with bright red hair flaming and swirling around her head, and green eyes that flashed impatiently.
German police are hunting a killer responsible for the death of 15 flamingos at Frankfurt Zoo.
It was the flamingoes rising and flying over the chott, the one daily phenomenon of the desert which the woman on the roof still loved to watch. The Golden Silence
I didn't know until I looked it up that philodendrons belong to the same family as the Arum lily and the beautiful Flamingo lily, which shouldn't come as a surprise as they do have something similar about them.
We were thieves that had stolen into the fold waiting to be discovered and expelled by a flaming sword.
A stooping, dispirited Adam and a wistful Eve walk slowly through a lush garden with gravid fruit trees and a profusion of animals, as a flaming red cherub, his sword raised, glowers against a possible return.
Her eyes went round as saucers at that thought that came out of nowhere, and hastily ducked her head, hoping her hair covered her flaming cheeks.
She giggled, shimmied and cooed her way through the pre-awards interviews, her hair dyed flaming ginger-red styled in soft-permed pigtails, like a toy doll.
You can walk along the wooden walkways over the water, or simply along the coastal paths, admiring the nature and the pink flamingoes. Classic France: the insiders' guide
She remembers pine trees, huge lakes surrounded with rock, flaming autumn colours and winters that left her cold six months of the year.
She saw the flaming jet slam into the block where her friends lived 100 yards away.
I glanced worriedly at Rora, her long flaming hair covered her face that was tilted towards the cold ground.
They let off a volley of flaming arrows, which light up the night like mad fireflies on a rampage.
He hunkered down beside her just as a flaming beam from the ceiling crashed to the ground only inches away.
They fell to the ground, flames licking around their flaming bodies.
Pink flamingos parade outside the medieval ramparts. Times, Sunday Times
This means they swing from the cold outer reaches of space to make a close pass by the flaming surface of the star, and those close passes may serve as sterilisation events for the surface of the planet.
Julia Morley said the contest had been used as a ‘political football’ and blamed a Nigerian journalist for inflaming the situation.
In the distance, flamingos fly from the lagoons, and everywhere there is the scent of the macchia shrubland. Times, Sunday Times
We had another flaming row. Times, Sunday Times
Even the much lauded Henrik Larsson looks more keen on setting up than sticking the damned ball in the flaming net.
Great place to nip into on the way to Hollywood and load up on flaming sambuca's at the bar with the lovely barmaids.
Keyla took the bag and turned her backs to the two; red hair flaming like the fires of the torch.
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
With the ballistae, however, they hoped to launch flaming spears into the sails of their enemy, slowing them down.
Out of the darkness of the sky there appeared many bright, flaming lights.
Wetlands are a lure for geese, swans, ducks, egrets, storks, herons and the icon of the Camargue, the pink flamingo.
Beds of poppies, hollyhocks, scarlet lychnis, and the most flaming flowers, border the edge of the walks, which extend till the perspective meets, and swarm with ladies and gentlemen in parti-coloured raiment. Dreams Waking Thoughts and Incidents
Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Sole Music
In 1924 he published, to great acclaim, The Flaming Terrapin, an exuberant allegorical narrative of the Flood, in which the terrapin represents energy and rejuvenation.
The nest of the flamingo is a curious affair; usually built in a marshy, muddy place, in the form of a mound. St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 4, February 1878
The door shut, lifting dust into the gelid flaming moon. Carolina Grüber: I
It was a splendid figure of a lass, tall and vigorous, with the sort of hair that in polite circles is called auburn, and that flaming colour in the cheeks which is Nature's recompense to people who live where it rains all the time. King Coal : a Novel
It comes in a rainbow of glowing colors: sunny yellow, sassy orange, vivid red, flaming coral, hot pink, and deep fuchsia.
Pink flamingos flying south for summer. Times, Sunday Times
And when someone mentions yourname Miami as if you are only aplastic flamingo in someone'syard, or a plastic braless girlon South Beach burning hertits in that sun, the same sunthat burned on my mother's foreheadwhile waited for the bus from FlaglerStreet to North Miami's factoria, yo no se porque nosotrosmi gente lo unico que recordamoses el rojo que dejamosy no el calor que empezamosen el exilio, en Miami. Yo No Se
In the distance, flamingos fly from the lagoons, and everywhere there is the scent of the macchia shrubland. Times, Sunday Times
Even when he gazed into her blue eyes he was conscious of a more flaming glory than lay in the heavens of their depths; a splendent maze that shed a brightness around her. Under the Rose
Harris had Marcia's flaming hair, her fair skin, and her constantly shifting hazel eyes.
Colonel Honeywood [13] are obliged to sell their commands at half-value, and leave the army, for drinking destruction to the present Ministry, and dressing up a hat on a stick, and calling it Harley; then drinking a glass with one hand, and discharging a pistol with the other at the maukin, [14] wishing it were Harley himself; and a hundred other such pretty tricks, as inflaming their soldiers, and foreign The Journal to Stella
Then, with considerable panache and dignity she held the flaming papers high in her hands until they disappeared in smoke.
They're over now and it seems to be the turn of exotics; bauhinias are out and flamboyants will be flaming across gardens and lighting up streets soon.
The balding man looked me over and I was grateful he couldn't see my cheeks flaming underneath the shadow of my hood.
For miles and miles men were quickly at work sinking holes into the ground; camp-fires were flaming; teamsters were inspanning and outspanning their oxen, and wagons were creaking. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania
They looked at the flamingos and timed how long it took for them to start moving from both unipedal and bipedal resiting positions. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
They have been accused - sometimes rightly - of distorting complex issues and inflaming public passions.
Les-Saintes-Maries-de-La-Mer in the Camargue, watery delta of the Rhone, is more like the wild west than the south of France, with white horses and bulls among the tall reeds, flocks of flamingos, huge never-ending sandy beaches, frenetic gypsy music in the market, crazy Mistral wind and mosquitos making for a memorable time. Summer holidays: Top 10 places for over-fives
It was from here that Captain James Cook, a local lad, set sail around the globe, inflaming every schoolboy's passion for adventure with his daring exploits.
Ginsberg, breyer and souter are hardly flaming liberals. Reid: What Lieberman Did Was "Improper" And "Wrong"
The tip of her arrow seemed to be flaming, orange and yellow dancing along the blood red point.
Singers Cindy Wilson (wearing a belted mini-dress and whipping her curtain of cornsilk hair like a dervish) and Kate Pierson (old-school burlesque in hot pants, flamingo-pink ruffled blouse and corset) have lost none of their vocal power, even if they both seemed a little exhausted by the idea of trotting out their 1990 hit "Roam. On the Scene: True Colors tour at NYC's Radio City | EW.com
Other residents include egrets, moor hens, herons, coots, white-necked storks, lapwings, grey wagtails, grebes, black droungos, green bee-eaters, tailorbirds, magpies and robins as well as numerous species of migratory birds like flamingos that often visit the place.
His work was a flaming call to arms; hers is resigned, melancholy, even funereal.
Instead, it seems that it is causing a more complicated destabilisation - inflaming long-running local conflicts, and gradually corroding nation states.
One bulb of the most sought-after variety , the flaming red-striped Semper Augustus, sold for twice the yearly income of a rich merchant.
Under the cover of darkness, exotic sports cars come alive with red-hot glowing brakes, flaming exhausts and sparks from contact as drivers battle both the elements and other drivers.
Flaming pinks, burning oranges, deep turquoise and wild reds were fused together to present a collection of Indo-westerns in fluid, flowing fabrics like georgettes, chiffons and crepes.
The hill was surrounded by the rich, seemingly infinite marshlands of Kamarg — a lonely landscape populated by wild white bulls, horned horses, and giant scarlet flamingoes so large they could easily lift a grown man. Archive 2010-02-01
Melanie slowly turned around, her face flaming.
One of his biggest successes has been helping to establish a new colony of flamingoes at Auckland Zoo.
They seem to have a flaming row at least once a week.
The Camargue is magical with the black bulls, white horses and pink flamingos. Que Faire a Aix-en-Provence? / What to do in Aix-en-Provence? - French Word-A-Day
She paid homage to the good points of Flamingus, but he was too cut and dried, "bromidic," she classified him, for Derry had carefully explained the etymology of the word. Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley
A javelin, tarred and flaming, snapped from some springal, thudded into the stem castle. Guardsman Of Gor
In Florida, a Cuban palette of pastels, flamingo pink, and salmon dominates fashion as well as exterior and interior design.
Some 8,000 protesters, mainly farmers, set barricades of flaming palm trees in the southern province of Assiut, blocking the main highway and railway to Cairo to complain of bread shortages. Egypt Labor Strikes Break Out Across The Country; Protesters Defiant
Flamingos are conceded by all to be closely linked to pelicans, albatrosses, loons, probably penguins, and the like - the charadriomorph lineage.
Christmas candles, except the queen, who was served with a hugeous, thick, stiff, flaming taper of white wax, somewhat red towards the tip; and the royal family, as also the provincial lantern of Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
We might have to have a flaming row with the Government if they don't come up with money. Times, Sunday Times
Our little spitfire has the flaming hair to match.
The flaming car was stuck in the corner of the street, mixed along with a few other cars.
The flaming comet on the cover and the name pun on the fact that Chitti's birth year is sadharana in the Hindu calendar, when Haley's comet was sighted.
And this discussion, no matter how robust, is not ‘flaming’ - logically and eruditely exchanging differences of opinion is what sets us apart from 4chan or YouTube commenters. So there.
Yonder she marches, heaven bless her! through the old oak hall (how long the shadows of the antlers are on the wainscot, and the armor of Rollo Fitz-Boodle looks in the sunset as if it were emblazoned with rubies) -- yonder she marches, stately and tall, in her invariable pearl-colored tabbinet, followed by Lady Dawdley, blazing like a flamingo; next comes Lady Emily Tufthunt (she was Lady The Fitz-Boodle Papers
Stacey and I brawled wildly, a flaming furry whirlwind of vampire and Mouser. Crossed
Others got tattooed in their youth and later regretted being imprinted with a flaming death head or a Flying V guitar.
My cheeks flaming, I felt intense anger flooding my body - and not childish anger but real anger that made steam come out of your ears and possess your whole body.
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Between dives, there is the whole park to explore, a lagoon with manatees, turtle pools, flamingos, parrots, pumas, jaguars, butterflies and a few small Mayan ruins.
Ted held a flaming poker close to Stephanie, who delivered her lines in a Mississippi drawl.
And when someone mentions yourname Miami as if you are only aplastic flamingo in someone'syard, or a plastic braless girlon South Beach burning hertits in that sun, the same sunthat burned on my mother's foreheadwhile waited for the bus from FlaglerStreet to North Miami's factoria, yo no se porque nosotrosmi gente lo unico que recordamoses el rojo que dejamosy no el calor que empezamosen el exilio, en Miami. Yo No Se
From white water rafting to cenote-diving, one of the hottest trends in travel is nature-based tourism, and many guidebooks respond by including extensive descriptions of flamingo tours, canyon cruises and sea-turtle habitats. Mexico By the Book
It's a spectacular sight as the flamingos lift into the air.
You know, like it might be the day that you sing “Happy Holiday to You,” blow out the menorahs on a pumpkin pie, exchange boxes of gelt, and then play spin the tail on the dreidl until midnight when three wise snowmen riding on a red-nosed reindeer fling Champagne bottles full of flaming frankincense and myrrh at your front door. Gaucho Grill - Having Nothing to Do with Anything. Or Something.
The older girl slipped in and began to remove her jacket, taking a pause to shake her head free of snowflakes, though only in vain as they clung to her flaming hair.
He had long, shaggy and uncombed flaming red hair.
His work was a flaming call to arms; hers is resigned, melancholy, even funereal.
She spotted a woman with flaming red hair walking slightly in front of her.
Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Sole Music
He hatched and hand-reared 22 chicks at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust in Slimbridge, which is home to the largest colony of breeding flamingoes in the county.
Pink flamingos flying south for summer. Times, Sunday Times
Or maybe flaming disembodies testicles are just the flaming dice of the new millennium. My Bike, It's Full of Stars! Every Material, Every Color, All the Time
flamingoes walk majestically through the marshes
We headed back, stopping to watch the area's famous pink flamingos in the silvery moonlight. Times, Sunday Times
Up close he could see she was quite pretty with flaming red hair and reddish brown eyes.
On his finger also hee put a Ring, wherein was enchased an admirable Carbuncle, which seemed like a flaming Torche, the value thereof not to bee estimated. The Decameron
Not even explosions of ticker tape, elevating platforms, glowing stages, ghost-like dancers wielding flaming torches, dancing trees, roller-skating bees, and even a giant caterpillar could match the collective gasp when Williams finally appeared, alone, carried aloft on a glass chariot. Take That – review
When ignited by the primer, the igniter sends hot flaming gases around the charge to ignite the propellant.
The Waffle noshery in Soi Day-Night 2 (just down from the well-known Flamingo sleeping palace) has just begun producing top-quality ice cream made from all-natural ingredients with no preservatives.
I take delight in the flaming stoves and gleaming brass vessels in wayside dhabas.
The dragons, named for the mythical Terran beast they resembled, had two valuable characteristics: They could instantaneously travel from one place to another, and after chewing a phosphine, bearing rock, they could emit a flaming gas. Artichoke
Before turning inland we passed pink flamingos stalking the salty shallows. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
Witness the world's largest catapult launch a flaming fireball. The Sun
Outside the formal main bar was a pond, home to a dozen or more pink flamingos.
But the sinister creatures with fierce, downturned grins and flaming red eyes look anything but happy. The Sun
In spite of myself I felt my cheeks redden under his flaming gaze, any hotter and his eyebrows would spontaneously combust. THE MANANA MAN
In each of them was a flaming wick, partly of asbestine flax, as of old in the temple of Jupiter Ammon, such as those which Cleombrotus, a most studious philosopher, saw, and partly of Carpasian flax (Ozell's correction. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5
The pin cushions, flaming squirrels and dead virgins just aren't cutting it.
Antoine is a somewhat priggish writer and English teacher whose landlady has a flaming crush on him, no matter that she once went upside his head with a hair dryer in a misplaced fury.
The point of the training will be to create more flair at the bar, but not the kind that involves flipping bottle and flaming drinks, he says.
His songs have been co-opted of late under the ironic rubric of "yacht rock," but classic songs like "Sailing" and "Ride Like the Wind"—both from a ubiquitous debut album with a deliquescent pink flamingo on it—serve nonetheless now as minor masterpieces of melody and mood. Go Back to Those Gold Sounds
Elegant flamingos and other birds flock to Chilika in the winter.
How the flaming perdition had he managed to get them into this mess? SOMETHING IN THE WATER
I watch Alexandra sink down into her chair, her face flaming as she tries to ignore the cruel words from Tessa.
It's an area of great natural beauty, home to pink flamingos and wild white horses. Times, Sunday Times
Yes, the flaming row at its heart is fiction. Times, Sunday Times
Red rock canyon walls and deep, sandy washes are painted with enough flaming titian reds and glowing ambers to make a painter weep.
Druid leader King Arthur Pendragon presided over the festivities standing amid a ring of flaming torches overshadowed by a pair of giant horns, themselves lit by burning branches.
Look out for flocks of flamingos and the rare purple swamphen, the area's official emblem. Times, Sunday Times
These include ostrich Struthio camelus, with white pelican Pelicanus onocrotalus, and greater and lesser flamingo Phoenicopterus ruber and P. minor on Lake Makat in Ngorongoro crater, Lake Ndutu and the Empakaai crater lake where over a million birds forgather. Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania
His necktie was a flaming red, adorned by a glittering horseshoe pin, almost life-size. The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million
She whispered, her face flaming as she laid her head on his shoulder.
She also risked life and limb playing a flaming piano for the set. The Sun
She appears as a modestly clad woman carrying a palm of victory as she tramples on a figure with flaming hair to indicate her triumph.
‘And we got a bit sidetracked,’ she finished, her face flaming red all over again.
It's amazing how the tiger can jump through flaming hoops, how the bear can ride a motorcycle and how the lion can walk on a tightrope.
Very few domestic rooms have the proportions of a grand hall that are needed to carry off one of those huge wrought-iron chandeliers sporting fiercely flaming torches.
At this point, certain forum administrators noted that the human flesh searches were in danger of inflaming netizen emotions. Therefore, they took counter-measures.
She saw them burning buildings, with flaming torches in their hands and astride their monstrous steed.
They felt that inflaming the situation with a vitriolic confrontation would make them feel more at risk.
The poem swung in majestic rhythm to the cool tumult of interstellar conflict, to the onset of starry hosts, to the impact of cold suns and the flaming up of nebular in the darkened void; and through it all, unceasing and faint, like a silver shuttle, ran the frail, piping voice of man, a querulous chirp amid the screaming of planets and the crash of systems. Chapter 35
In the distance, flamingos fly from the lagoons, and everywhere there is the scent of the macchia shrubland. Times, Sunday Times
The islands are home to many bird species, including fish eagles, ospreys and flamingos.
In the Antechamber leading to the Assembly of Iron, the Rune Etched Sentry's ability, Flaming Rune, does considerably less damage over time in both difficulty modes.
With each lurch of the truck another flaming bale toppled off, coming to a flaming halt on the road or igniting the grass at its shoulder.
In the plum duff episode a man was burned by extra vodka being thrown over a flaming festive pud in an officers' mess. The Sun
It ‘gave a rotundity to my person, a wave and curl to my hair, and perhaps led me to fancy pictorial illustration and flaming colours’.
Pour me a glass of rum and within the vapors rises a raucous and even romantic history of joy, tragedy and debauchery: tippling houses in Barbados in the early 1600's, where British settlers supped the earliest permutation of rum, which they referred to as "kill-devil"; jug wielding pirates careening through the streets of Port Royal in Jamaica, wildly spending their pieces of eight plundered from the Spanish and British empires; independence-minded American revolutionaries huddled in taverns drinking rum Flips and plotting their resistance against the heavy taxes imposed upon them by the British; Americans fleeing Prohibition downing Daiquiris and Swizzles in the jammed bars of Havana; opulent tiki palaces serving Mai Tais, flaming Scorpion bowls, Hurricanes and Fog Cutters to lei-festooned business-men and June Cleaveresque housewives. Slashfood

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