aflame
Example Sentences
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When a SpaceX rocket failure set the skies aflame over western Europe last February, no-one was sure if the debris was also polluting our atmosphere.
From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026
Video footage of the plane’s takeoff showed the General Electric engine aflame before the jet crashed in an industrial area just beyond the runway at Louisville’s Muhammad Ali International Airport.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025
The saganaki, set aflame tableside by the waiter, makes for an unforgettable appetizer — and the menu only gets better from there.
From Salon • Sep. 3, 2025
You don’t even know what spark will set something aflame.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 2024
Vilma Castillo lit a baked Alaska that set the kitchen aflame and required many buckets of water to extinguish.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
