inferno

Example Sentences

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The inferno took the lives of at least 19, jumping east to west and burning 9,000 homes, businesses and other structures to the ground.

From Los Angeles Times

Fire hydrants went dry or lost pressure during the Palisades fire, turning homes like hers into fuel for the inferno.

From The Wall Street Journal

Twenty-six of those who died in the inferno were teenagers, including eight under 16.

From Barron's

"This is a Notre Dame inferno in the making," he says in a reference to the Parisian cathedral which caught fire in 2019.

From BBC

Among them: Why were crews ordered to leave the still-smoldering scar of an earlier blaze that would reignite into the Palisades inferno?

From Los Angeles Times