flare
Example Sentences
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Shutting the jungle of pipes and towering flare stacks dominating the desert shoreline took a fifth of supercooled gas supplies from the world market at a stroke.
Energy stocks have followed rising oil prices, which were languishing in the danger zone for many American producers before climbing this year as tensions flared in the Middle East.
The Lebanese military, which has sought to distance itself from the war between Hezbollah and Israel, said its units then carried out "immediate alert and defence measures", using flare bombs to detect the landing spot.
From BBC
George Prokopiou made one of the boldest plays of his 55-year tanker career: sending ships through the Strait of Hormuz while war flared across the Middle East.
He also urged the media "to not live-stream dangerous behaviours - the use of flares or scaffold-climbing - in a way that celebrates poor behaviour or encourages others to follow suit".
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
