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ignite quickly and suddenly, especially after having died down
the fire flared up and died down once again -
erupt or intensify suddenly
Tempers flared at the meeting
Unrest erupted in the country
The crowd irrupted into a burst of patriotism
How To Use flare up In A Sentence
- The arthritic patient's joints may flare up. An Alternative Approach to Allergies
- She poked at the fire causing it to flare up and throw more shadows across their faces.
- Nevertheless, adult turkeys may harbor latent infections of coccidia that flare up when the host individual is stressed.
- The result will be a world that muddles along, with the constant danger that unattended problems will flare up disastrously.
- She said the strong southeaster which has fanned the flames over the past two days was set to continue, and there was a constant danger that smouldering coals in areas where flames had been extinguished, would flare up again.
- Little wonder that fierce controversies flare up. Times, Sunday Times
- There's also the added community backlash which can be seen indirectly in flare ups like the Fox News-Mass Effect fiasco et.al. We can also see echoes of Rockstar's decision to leave the content in in some of the more embarassing and alienating aspects of recent marketing schemes. A Pricey Cup Of Joe
- One would think that meaning might flare up here or there though some chance concatenation of words.
- He went into the Masters after a lengthy layoff with a lower back injury only for the trouble to flare up again the next week. Times, Sunday Times
- But despite the cost in human life the posting has never caught the public imagination in the way much more minor flare ups in the world's political hotspots have.