FLAME in a Sentence

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For FLAME, below is one of 246 sentences:
Dashing a hand across her eyes, she peered squinting and saw thin lines of flame creeping across the kitchen floor, toward the walls.

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 Meanings and Examples of FLAME
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
flame
 n.  stream of burning vapor or gas, emitting light and heat; passion of love
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She continued to stare at him, the flame of the unshaded lamp bringing out with microscopic cruelty the fretful lines of her face.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  At first its weak flame made no impression on the shadows; then Zeena's face stood grimly out against the uncurtained pane, which had turned from grey to black.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
3  For a moment such a flame of hate rose in him that it ran down his arm and clenched his fist against her.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
4  Pork took a long spiller from the mantelpiece, lit it from the lamp flame and went into the hall.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  These refugees cried out to see Pennsylvania one solid sheet of flame, and even the gentlest of old ladies wore expressions of grim pleasure.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
6  He was smiling, but in the dark depths of his eyes a tiny light flickered for a brief moment, like a small raw flame.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
7  For a moment her mind refused to accept the truth, but when realization finally came to her that Prissy knew no more about midwifery than she did, anger went over her like a flame.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
8  The dark sky became pink and then dull red, and suddenly above the trees, she saw a huge tongue of flame leap high to the heavens.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
9  The sky was rent with gigantic flame.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
10  The world became an inferno of noise and flame and trembling earth as one explosion followed another in earsplitting succession.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
11  As Rhett jerked the horse's head and turned him into another street, another deafening explosion tore the air and a monstrous skyrocket of flame and smoke shot up in the west.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
12  Then, there was a crash of falling timbers near by and Scarlett saw a thin tongue of flame lick up over the roof of the warehouse in whose sheltering shadow they sat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
13  Then pennons and battle flags of flame flared triumphantly to the sky above them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
14  This was her last view of home, her last view except what she might see from the cover of the woods or the swamp, the tall chimneys wrapped in smoke, the roof crashing in flame.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
15  Dashing a hand across her eyes, she peered squinting and saw thin lines of flame creeping across the kitchen floor, toward the walls.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
Example Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
16  "Wild" may be a misnomer. The malicious starting of fires is as old as the human fascination with flame and many of the fires may be directly or indirectly caused by humans.
17  If those two wires touch, the appliance will short-circuit and probably go up in flames.
18  Truth fears not the flames of slander and injustice.
19  There were two loud explosions and then the building burst into flames.
20  During the afternoon, hot winds fan the flames.
21  The book will serve to fan the flames of debate like no other.
22  The aircraft came down in flames, and the heat fused most of the parts together into a solid mass.
23  Red and yellow flames spurted out of the fire.
24  The car crashed into the safety barrier and burst into flames.
25  She was able to shoot the rumour down in flames with ample documentary evidence.
26  At the meeting Smith made some objection to my plan which I was able to shoot down in flames with no trouble.
27  Throw the water over the flames.
28  But, on rare occasions, microscopic metal particles can lead to a short circuit within the cell, causing overheating and potentially flames.
29  Information minister Jerry Gana released a statement in which he says there has been an international media conspiracy against Nigeria, to highlight the controversy surrounding the beauty pageant and fanning the flames of violence.
30  The flames lick at our feet; all of us keep moving as fast as possible.