aflame
Example Sentences
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On Dec. 26, 1811, in Richmond, hundreds of theatergoers were immersed in a performance at a newly built multistory auditorium on the city’s main thoroughfare when candles from a backstage chandelier set a scrim aflame.
From Washington Post
The film cleverly relies on color, physicality and elemental symbolism to express these tensions: the repressed Joanne swims daily in freezing waters; the untouchable Julia lights things aflame.
From New York Times
At the edge of a thicket of loblolly pines, they stepped over a concrete slab decorated with a mural of a police car, overturned and aflame.
From Los Angeles Times
“An Absence in the Fire” suggests an open door into an oven, in which a figure appears to be aflame.
From New York Times
And the open-ended claim lit social media aflame, prompting people to fill in the gaps.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
