flame
Example Sentences
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In many boreal regions, flames can spread downward into thick layers of carbon rich soil beneath the forest floor.
From Science Daily
It was the third speaker who lit a flame inside me and filled me with the knowledge that this movement was my destiny.
From Literature
Even I wouldn’t be able to spot him unless I caught a glimpse of the flame of his hair.
From Literature
She said other long-ago alarms lit a flame or made a pot of coffee.
As the flames spread, blocking the exits for those crowded in the bunk room below, a member of Boylan’s crew twice ran right by a 50-foot fire hose overhead, trial evidence showed.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
