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UK
/wˈaɪldfaɪə/
]
[ US /ˈwaɪɫdˌfaɪɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈwaɪɫdˌfaɪɝ/ ]
NOUN
- a raging and rapidly spreading conflagration
How To Use wildfire In A Sentence
- The cake won and the news spread like wildfire. Times, Sunday Times
- Reforestation is an essential step toward restoring forest areas damaged by wildfire.
- The wildfire quickly spreads, consuming the thick, dried-out vegetation and almost everything else in its path.
- Gossip about the women has spread like wildfire through the force. The Sun
- The intense thunderstorm will quench the fires before they become wildfires and will dislodge the weaker numbers and prepare them for the next fire.
- Some of those trees will reforest a site at Sikhote-Alin Reserve in the Far East that suffers from yearly wildfires.
- Wildfire and Firecat barreled through the thick smoke, their laser rifles blazing an incandescent firestorm through the smoke.
- The terrible news spread like wildfire. The Sun
- The fire was raging through the area so quickly that people in the neighborhood were being herded onto buses and trucks to move them out of the path of the wildfire.
- Over my years of working as a research ecologist for the U.S. Forest Service in Hawaii, I watched fountain grass repeatedly rise up like a green phoenix after ecologically devastating wildfires and rapidly establish in what to this species is a very favorable postfire environment of increased light and nutrients and decreased plant competition. Robert J. Cabin: The Wildfires in Hawaii Are a Loss for Our World