BLAZE in a Sentence

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194 example sentences for BLAZE, such as:

1. saw the beacons blaze on the hills.
2. The sun was blazing down that afternoon.
3. At the beginning blazing heart Long silence.
4. In the fall, the trees are a blaze of color.
5. Within minutes the whole building was blazing.

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 Meanings and Examples of BLAZE
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blaze
 n.  brilliant burst of fire; destructive fire; flame
Classic Sentence: (169 in 12 pages)
1  She appeared to be dazzled by the sudden blaze of light, and after dropping a curtsey, she stood blinking at us with her bleared eyes and fumbling in her pocket with nervous, shaky fingers.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
2  saw the beacons blaze on the hills.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
3  So she sat and warmed her hands at the blaze, and dropped logs on the fire, whilst outside he was hammering again.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
4  Again he was frightened at the deep blue blaze of her eyes, and of her soft stillness, sitting there.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
5  He put the sticks on the fire, and fetched more, till they had a good crackling chimneyful of blaze.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
6  Still panting with their exertions, each wrapped in an army blanket, but the front of the body open to the fire, they sat on a log side by side before the blaze, to get quiet.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
7  Boys is wery obstinit, and wery lazy, Gen'l'men, and there's nothink like a good hot blaze to make 'em come down vith a run.'
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
8  The heath down there was now a vast abyss, and no longer a continuation of what they stood on; for their eyes, adapted to the blaze, could see nothing of the deeps beyond its influence.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
9  The bonfire was by this time beginning to sink low, for the fuel had not been of that substantial sort which can support a blaze long.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
10  "Scrape up a few stray locks of furze, and make a blaze, so that we can see who the man is," said Fairway.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
11  A blaze of love, and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night
12  The reddleman was surprised to see how a slow fire could blaze on occasion.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion
13  Its windows are mainly east; and in the early morning, when the sun is bright, the whole apartment is in a perfect blaze of splendour.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 4 An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness
14  The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out towards the blaze.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
15  Looking back, the huge house was one blaze of light.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON
Example Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  Firefighters took action immediately to stop the blaze spreading.
2  The trial took place amid a blaze of publicity.
3  In the fall, the trees are a blaze of color.
4  The blaze spread to two adjacent buildings before firefighters were able to contain it.
5  Crowds of youths prevented the fire service from dealing with the blaze.
6  Their marriage took place amid a blaze of publicity.
7  It took the firemen nearly two hours to put the blaze out.
8  The blaze, which is not yet under control, has destroyed five thousand hectares of pine woodland and forced hundreds of villagers to leave their homes.
9  We should blaze the truth to block any room of rumors.
10  Shifting winds on Thursday made it difficult for about 800 firefighters to tackle the 29 sq m (75sq km) blaze, just one of many burning across the parched Midwest of the United States.
11  The wildfire burning in and around Yosemite National Park has become the fourth-largest conflagration in modern California history, fire officials said Sunday as clouds and higher humidity helped crews further contain the biggest blaze in the United States this year.
12  The layer of thick smoke now covering all of southern California, thousands of firefighters are still struggling to contain ten separate blazes.
13  The sun was blazing down that afternoon.
14  Within minutes the whole building was blazing.
15  At the beginning blazing heart Long silence.