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This city of dreaming spires has lit the Promethean flame under poets and artists for centuries, but its latest architectural offering—20-yard rail and foot bridges connecting Oxford Station over Botley Road—has underwhelmed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Pete describes it as one of the most challenging environments he has ever flown in, with "multiple walls of flame", personnel and vehicles moving around the site and helicopters operating overhead.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

But Yank’s sense of dignity proves as fragile as a candle flame; it’s instantly snuffed out when Mildred appears and reviles him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Runners could honor the Olympic movement’s past or future while celebrating L.A. and sports before passing the flame to the final torchbearer to light the cauldron.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

She slammed her own torch, flame side down, into the sand, extinguishing it.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

But the fire continued to smoulder underground in peatland, and when the wind shifted, the flames moved towards their homes.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

A historic Black church in South Los Angeles that had been severely damaged in two previous fires went up in flames for a third time before sunrise Monday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

"She had to leave her habitat, and we had to rescue her, primarily because of the flames," he added.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Races begin with a bone-shaking roar, as the world's fastest-accelerating cars leave the starting line, flames bursting out of their exhaust pipes.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

As he watched the dancing flames he felt something struggling to break free inside him.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville

In fact, what the race revealed were the weaknesses and limitations of an ineffective candidate who would have almost certainly flamed out in the general election.

From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026

In what is likely the most watched soccer match in the country’s history, they flamed out in epic fashion with a blowout defeat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

The 1988 presidential campaign of Alexander Haig, a former four-star general who served as Ronald Reagan’s first secretary of state, flamed out amid GOP infighting over the Iran–Contra affair.

From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026

Doubts about a Fed rate cut next month were also flamed by the release of much-delayed September jobs data.

From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025

His golden shield was uncovered, and lo! it shone like an image of the Sun, and the grass flamed into green about the white feet of his steed.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

International fans who have lived with this flaming dumpster of technology have to chuckle at a Jason-come-lately discovering the bane of their existence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

A flaming ear of corn transforms into a crankshaft.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

"While this may look like just a baton," Bresnik said, "it feels like big flaming hot Olympic torch."

From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026

Some of her favourite moments include Beaker losing his eyeballs in a science experiment and Gonzo wearing flaming roller skates - to give a flavour of the chaos.

From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026

The yule log burned on the hearth and flaming torches filled the sconces.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli