How to Use ablaze in a Sentence

ablaze

adjective or adverb

• Trees were ablaze and flames were within 10 feet of the house.
  — Elliot Spagat and Andrew Dalton, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Dec. 2017
• Houses on both sides of the street were ablaze and no one else was around.
  — Nina Strochlic, National Geographic, 29 Sep. 2020
• Was this the same Christian Yelich that set the baseball world ablaze?
  — Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
• The home was ablaze when fire crews got to the scene, Battalion Chief Rusty Hahn said.
  — Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 15 Aug. 2022
• The skies were ablaze with disorder that night, the planets aghast in a quiver.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2022
• Lava set trees ablaze and threatened homes as gas spewed out of cracks in the ground.
  — Susannah Cullinane and Steve Almasy, CNN, 5 May 2018
• One never knows which ember will land in the right spot to set it all ablaze.
  — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2021
• This is augmented by the fact that the Middle East is ablaze.
  — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 12 Oct. 2023
• Dry grass around and beneath the car was also ablaze, and the 67-year-old driver was slumped over the wheel.
  — Ryan Blethen, The Seattle Times, 24 Sep. 2019
• The television was on, the fireplace was ablaze and the Christmas tree had been trimmed.
  — Allan Brettman, OregonLive.com, 13 Dec. 2017
• And then, on the eighth and final night, when all the candles would be lit, the window scene would be ablaze with light.
  — Sandi Dolbee Writer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Dec. 2020
• At one point, the suspect threw the 57-year-old victim to the ground, poured gas on his foot and set it ablaze, Buttle said.
  — Lyndsay Winkley, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 June 2018
• Australia was ablaze, and the embers had barely cooled in the Amazon.
  — Mary Annaïse Heglar, Wired, 1 Apr. 2020
• With so many twists and turns, social media was ablaze with hot takes.
  — Patrick Crowley, Billboard, 15 Mar. 2018
• Photos showed homes ablaze and clouds of smoke climbing high into the air.
  — Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2021
• Photos showed homes ablaze, and clouds of smoke climbing high into the air.
  — Arkansas Online, 1 Jan. 2022
• The fire department on Friday received a call that a fence near a home in the 500 block of Ridge Road was ablaze.
  — Daniel I. Dorfman, chicagotribune.com, 18 June 2018
• Women vowed to set themselves ablaze if the film was released.
  — Sandip Roy, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Feb. 2018
• By the 12-minute mark, the salon was filled with smoke, and two minutes later, the entire back of the salon was ablaze.
  — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2023
• Auerbach’s plane was toward the tail end, and by then Tokyo was already ablaze.
  — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 21 Aug. 2019
• The first 911 call came in just after 3 a.m. that a house just outside the Dallas city limits was ablaze.
  — oregonlive, 20 Apr. 2020
• Ruidiaz set the place ablaze with excitement with his opening goal in the 45th minute.
  — Jayda Evans, Anchorage Daily News, 5 May 2022
• Word quickly spread and an angry white mob set the Carswell Grove church ablaze.
  — John Eligon, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2019
• My right nipple is ablaze in a brush fire of discomfort.
  — Will Nevin, OregonLive.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• Meanwhile, a Houthi missile attack set a ship ablaze in the Gulf of Aden, but caused no injuries.
  — Jon Gambrell, Quartz, 4 Mar. 2024
• Frazee later moved the body to a water trough and added gas and wood before setting it ablaze, Slater said.
  — Eric Levenson, CNN, 1 Nov. 2019
• Buildings were ablaze, bodies were lying on the ground.
  — NBC News, 19 Mar. 2022
• The boat was fully ablaze when first responders arrived at the scene.
  — al, 9 May 2021
• In the following days, the internet was ablaze with these images.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 24 June 2024
• Multiple trees around a house also caught on fire and a car in the driveway was also ablaze, officials said.
  — ABC News, 15 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024