1
: resembling or suggesting a flame in color, brilliance, or wavy outline
the flaming sunset sky
flaming red hair
2
: being on fire : blazing
a flaming torch
3
: intense, passionate
flaming youth
4
—used as an intensive
you flaming idiot
flamingly
adverb
Examples of flaming in a Sentence
a fancy restaurant serving eye-catching flaming desserts
a flaming speech in support of basic human rights
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The Tigers have staged this flaming start thanks to their unique play style and positive culture and a bundle of comeback stories.
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Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 21 May 2025
That's pretty vague, but the season 2 teaser trailer highlights several of the aforementioned foes and woes, from a host of haunted dolls and a swarm of bees to a flaming, winged creature and the gnarly sight of Tyler (Hunter Doohan) in his Hyde form.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 23 Apr. 2025
Earth upon Earth has opened and already come to the iced or flaming end
of everything except sludge or scales or fur.
—Julie Swarstad Johnson, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2025
Use fire itself, not as a flaming wood chipper, but as a transmuting presence to which much of the landscape may already be adapted, a process that can massage the biota, not just blast it away.
—Stephen A. Pyne, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Jan. 2025
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Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 21 May 2025
That's pretty vague, but the season 2 teaser trailer highlights several of the aforementioned foes and woes, from a host of haunted dolls and a swarm of bees to a flaming, winged creature and the gnarly sight of Tyler (Hunter Doohan) in his Hyde form.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 23 Apr. 2025
Earth upon Earth has opened and already come to the iced or flaming end
of everything except sludge or scales or fur.
—Julie Swarstad Johnson, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2025
Use fire itself, not as a flaming wood chipper, but as a transmuting presence to which much of the landscape may already be adapted, a process that can massage the biota, not just blast it away.
—Stephen A. Pyne, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for flaming
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“Flaming.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flaming. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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