conflagration
Example Sentences
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At this point, experts say, even if a fire starts, the fuels aren’t dry enough to cause a massive conflagration.
From Los Angeles Times
State Farm General, an offshoot of national insurance giant State Farm Mutual, contends it has been financially sinking as seasonal wildfires morph into catastrophic urban conflagrations that destroy towns.
From Los Angeles Times
They are among the few merchant vessels to have sailed through the waterway since the conflagration trapped thousands of boats and threatened a global energy crisis.
The targeting of Turkey marks the crossing of another line in the rapidly expanding conflagration; Iran until Wednesday had refrained from attacking its neighbor.
The more recent war on terror was long and expensive—one hopes far more than the current conflagration, on both counts.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
