aflame

Example Sentences

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Andersen’s stay at Gad’s Hill has rarely set professional Dickensians aflame.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

When a SpaceX rocket failure set the skies aflame over western Europe last February, no-one was sure if the debris was also polluting our atmosphere.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026

Videos posted to social media showed the vehicle aflame in front of the hotel's entrance and people being escorted out of the building.

From Salon • Jan. 2, 2025

You don’t even know what spark will set something aflame.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 2024

He imagined her as, say, Mrs. Cobb, swooping out from behind her picket fence with eyes aflame, calling down the turbine perflant upon a minister’s son who threw rocks.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt