How to Use aflame in a Sentence

aflame

adjective or adverb
Definition of aflamenext
Synonyms for aflamenext
  • All that remains of her is her TV set, aflame in her back yard.
    — Holden Seidlitz, The New Yorker, 10 June 2024
  • Instead of just the head of a fire running through trees, the whole perimeter may be aflame.
    — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 10 June 2018
  • In the United States, news of the event set right-wing social media aflame.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Soon the camera swerves to a television screen, where the Twin Towers are aflame.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 9 June 2022
  • In a world aflame with protest, Latin America stands out as a raging ten-alarm fire.
    — Moisés Naím, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2019
  • The series builds to these hefty questions, asked of the fake broken toilet and, later on, a car set aflame.
    — Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2023
  • But new pressures appeared; now the culture wars were aflame.
    — TIME, 6 Oct. 2023
  • And how, pray tell, are those high-up chandeliers being set aflame?
    — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 5 July 2024
  • If that price wasn't enough to set your wallet aflame, there's also the matter of the Purosangue's inevitable gas-guzzler tax.
    — Andrew Krok, Car and Driver, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Some even fashioned a flag that features a silhouette of a woman in front of a Capitol that is aflame.
    — Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2021
  • The fighting reached a climax when the British and their allies besieged a Pequot fort and set it aflame, hunting down those who fled.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, Harper's Magazine, 11 Oct. 2022
  • And, last but not least, we were enveloped by a dusting from delicious hot, puffy cloud-like Beignets, and Bananas Foster, all aflame.
    — Kristin L. Wolfe, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Right now, the hills are aflame with poppies, otters frolic off shore, migrating whales spout, and the azure Pacific crashes on the shore.
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Things heated up in the kitchen quickly, with the chefs grabbing armfuls of ingredients and bottles of liquor to help set their dishes aflame.
    — Rachel Bernhard, Journal Sentinel, 1 May 2024
  • All of their horses were all evacuated preemptively — for fear that the dry hills nearby would soon be aflame — and the owners said none were hurt.
    — Malika Andrews, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Tuesday morning, trees were still aflame and a flank of the fire was moving largely unchecked into the Desolation Wilderness.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2021
  • In the off-the-grid community of Last Chance, some people received reverse-911 landline calls after dark—but by then houses were aflame, and one man perished.
    — Ingfei Chen, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Witness video from Miami, broadcast on the city’s NBC station, showed a plane that appeared to be partially aflame flying through the sky.
    — Justine McDaniel, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Police have used tear gas to disperse protests, and there were reports of looting and government buildings being set aflame.
    — Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2024
  • The internet is aflame, and not just because of the article: Kayla tweeted that Deborah got Late Night.
    — Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 23 May 2024
  • Some of the local smoked mackerel, an octopus for the willful Italian, and another fish set aflame.
    — Andrew Sean Greer, Travel + Leisure, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Talk shows and social media have been aflame with the notion that Green has worn out his welcome and can easily be replaced, based on the Warriors’ Game 3 victory.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Apr. 2023
  • The Internet is aflame this morning with the prospect of a cage match between two of the tech industry's most prominent and controversial leaders.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 22 June 2023
  • Twitter was practically aflame with reactions during both the East and West Coast airings of the special on Sunday.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN, 8 Mar. 2021
  • They are seen as sparks that would ignite the insurgency to come and set Iraq aflame for years, a period of disorder that would claim the lives of thousands of U.S. troops and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians.
    — Garrett M. Graff, Foreign Affairs, 5 May 2023
  • Some even incorporate items from Adelman’s studio, like ceramics, as well as aflame glass oil lamps.
    — ELLE Decor, 18 May 2023
  • Governments have spoken out, protests have taken place, social media is aflame.
    — New York Times, 14 May 2021
  • Demonstrators rocked a police van, set it ablaze, scrawled graffiti across its charred body and set it aflame again as officers retreated.
    — Sudhin Thanawala, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 May 2020
  • Lemon is popular with many of his of his co-workers at CNN, but is known for occasionally making gaffes that can set social media aflame.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Athens was aflame with protests, including irate Greeks burning her in effigy, as Merkel became the face of fiscal austerity enforced in the euro area in return for bailouts that kept the currency union whole.
    — Tony Czuczka, Bloomberg.com, 22 Sep. 2017

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