conflagration
Example Sentences
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Those conflagrations inspired the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency and the passage of the Clean Water Act.
Among the recipients were educators from Pasadena Unified’s John Muir High School, which was spared from flames but whose staff and students were deeply affected by the conflagration.
From Los Angeles Times
And Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without the World of Westeros’ conflagration, starring a dragon egg.
From Salon
An urban conflagration, which jumps from house to house through explosions of millions of embers, “is more intense than a normal wildland-urban interface fire,” Rohde said.
From Los Angeles Times
January’s conflagration produced plenty of targets for public outrage.
From Los Angeles Times
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