flames
Example Sentences
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Fire officials said nearly 200 firefighters were working to extinguish the flames on the island of Salamina and keep them from converging, Greek media report.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
"It was like the scenes of the Blitz, just a blazing inferno, the flames were moving so quickly," she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
“Just another day of watching Russia burn,” she wrote on Instagram this week, posting a photo of flames rising over a Siberian petrochemicals plant, to the soundtrack of The Prodigy’s “Firestarter.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Some 550 firefighters are in the battle against the flames near the eruption of another fire in July that covered 37 square kilometres of land.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
Glowing embers drifted through the air, and Morris’s flames were almost purple in the smoke.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
