inferno

Example Sentences

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Not long before he was reportedly detained, Miles Kwan approached commuters outside a Hong Kong train station, urging them to demand accountability for the deadly inferno that tore through nearby apartment blocks.

From Barron's

This is Hong Kong's deadliest fire in at least 63 years - already having surpassed the toll of the August 1962 inferno in the Sham Shui Po neighbourhood, which killed 44 people and displaced hundreds.

From BBC

There are photographs from the Vietnam War era that have become as iconic as the flag-raising on Iwo Jima or the inferno aboard the Hindenburg.

From The Wall Street Journal

The inferno -- the financial hub's worst in decades -- sent shock waves through the city, which has some of the world's most densely populated and tallest residential blocks.

From Barron's

Now, emerging research shows disabled survivors are also disproportionately likely to suffer in the aftermath of an inferno — as much from smoke and ash as from bureaucratic intransigence and institutional failure.

From Los Angeles Times