conflagration
Example Sentences
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He is sceptical both about the estimated cost of MPs staying in Parliament while the work is completed and suggestions the building is on the brink of a destructive conflagration.
From BBC
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
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