conflagration

Example Sentences

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Blankfein said he was concerned that the lack of a recent financial market shakeout made the dangers of another conflagration all the greater.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 26, 2026

Political scientist Yuttaporn Issarachai said that the Thai government's primary agenda has shifted towards daunting external challenges, including the economic fallout of the Middle East conflagration.

From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026

They are among the few merchant vessels to have sailed through the waterway since the conflagration trapped thousands of boats and threatened a global energy crisis.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

Resilience, too, is transmitted, as is a desire to preserve the love that wasn’t destroyed in the family conflagration.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2026

Summertime riots had become an annual event in America’s inner cities, starting with the Los Angeles Watts conflagration in 1965, and the climate in Durham that spring was particularly volatile.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson