fiery

In “Shadow Before the Flame,” Ms. Katz rectifies that lapse with an account of the airship’s final trans-Atlantic flight and its fiery end at Lakehurst, N.J., on May 6, 1937.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Thirty-six years ago, Nigel flew across the Atlantic as the fiery outsider, tearing through Doug DeWitt in Atlantic City to secure his first world title.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

“We’re both fiery, fiery competitors and we want to win and it’s one of the things I really admire about her game,” Clark told the Associated Press in an interview published Wednesday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

And yet, this villain’s fiery domain, where imps torture souls nearby, is also recognizably Dionysian.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

The River Phlegethon spilled over the side in jagged tiers of fiery waterfalls.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

On another side of town, and in another fictional world, sketch-comedy group The Habit tries on a fierier stage adaptation with a much higher body count: the 1988 Christmas Eve action-thriller “Die Hard.”

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 12, 2019

With the help of a public speaking coach, he returned to the debates as a decidedly fierier presence.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 21, 2016

He was fierier than most Plowshares activists, a believer in miracles and prophecy, a bold “warrior for peace,” like Philip Berrigan.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 28, 2015

While Mr. Boreyko led the orchestra in brisk, burnished readings — the brasses, not always the Philharmonic’s rock, were particularly strong — the final Allegro of the Dvorak could have been fierier.

From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2012

A fierier generation—not hot enough, however, to set the fjord on flame—would celebrate the comparatively recent freedom of the country in numerous patriotic forms.

From Henrik Ibsen by Edmund Gosse

Walkerswood is known for producing some of the fieriest sauces.

From BBC ● May 31, 2026

The paper reported that there were parents in favor of the mask mandate, but some of the fieriest speeches came from those diametrically opposed.

From Fox News ● Aug. 18, 2021

Having been trialled for 10 minutes at Southampton last week, it’s getting a full baptism of the fieriest fire today.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 19, 2017

Todd Stottlemyre, known as one of the fieriest pitchers of his era, won 138 games in the majors from 1988 to 2002.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 17, 2016

A snaffle curbs the fieriest steed, and he Who in subjection lives must needs be meek.

From Oedipus Trilogy by Francis Storr