How to Use aflame in a Sentence

aflame

adjective or adverb

• All that remains of her is her TV set, aflame in her back yard.
  — Holden Seidlitz, The New Yorker, 10 June 2024
• Instead of just the head of a fire running through trees, the whole perimeter may be aflame.
  — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 10 June 2018
• In the United States, news of the event set right-wing social media aflame.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2023
• Soon the camera swerves to a television screen, where the Twin Towers are aflame.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 9 June 2022
• In a world aflame with protest, Latin America stands out as a raging ten-alarm fire.
  — Moisés Naím, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2019
• The series builds to these hefty questions, asked of the fake broken toilet and, later on, a car set aflame.
  — Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2023
• But new pressures appeared; now the culture wars were aflame.
  — TIME, 6 Oct. 2023
• And how, pray tell, are those high-up chandeliers being set aflame?
  — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 5 July 2024
• If that price wasn't enough to set your wallet aflame, there's also the matter of the Purosangue's inevitable gas-guzzler tax.
  — Andrew Krok, Car and Driver, 15 Feb. 2023
• Some even fashioned a flag that features a silhouette of a woman in front of a Capitol that is aflame.
  — Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2021
• The fighting reached a climax when the British and their allies besieged a Pequot fort and set it aflame, hunting down those who fled.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, Harper's Magazine, 11 Oct. 2022
• And, last but not least, we were enveloped by a dusting from delicious hot, puffy cloud-like Beignets, and Bananas Foster, all aflame.
  — Kristin L. Wolfe, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
• Right now, the hills are aflame with poppies, otters frolic off shore, migrating whales spout, and the azure Pacific crashes on the shore.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2023
• Things heated up in the kitchen quickly, with the chefs grabbing armfuls of ingredients and bottles of liquor to help set their dishes aflame.
  — Rachel Bernhard, Journal Sentinel, 1 May 2024
• All of their horses were all evacuated preemptively — for fear that the dry hills nearby would soon be aflame — and the owners said none were hurt.
  — Malika Andrews, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2017
• Tuesday morning, trees were still aflame and a flank of the fire was moving largely unchecked into the Desolation Wilderness.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2021
• In the off-the-grid community of Last Chance, some people received reverse-911 landline calls after dark—but by then houses were aflame, and one man perished.
  — Ingfei Chen, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2022
• Witness video from Miami, broadcast on the city’s NBC station, showed a plane that appeared to be partially aflame flying through the sky.
  — Justine McDaniel, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2024
• Police have used tear gas to disperse protests, and there were reports of looting and government buildings being set aflame.
  — Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2024
• Now, the Fed is signaling that the higher rates have done their job on the inflation front — and that keeping them aflame could lead to unnecessary damage to the rest of the economy.
  — Rob Wile, NBC News, 31 July 2024
• The internet is aflame, and not just because of the article: Kayla tweeted that Deborah got Late Night.
  — Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 23 May 2024
• Some of the local smoked mackerel, an octopus for the willful Italian, and another fish set aflame.
  — Andrew Sean Greer, Travel + Leisure, 12 Aug. 2023
• Talk shows and social media have been aflame with the notion that Green has worn out his welcome and can easily be replaced, based on the Warriors’ Game 3 victory.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Apr. 2023
• The Internet is aflame this morning with the prospect of a cage match between two of the tech industry's most prominent and controversial leaders.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 22 June 2023
• Twitter was practically aflame with reactions during both the East and West Coast airings of the special on Sunday.
  — Brian Stelter, CNN, 8 Mar. 2021
• They are seen as sparks that would ignite the insurgency to come and set Iraq aflame for years, a period of disorder that would claim the lives of thousands of U.S. troops and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians.
  — Garrett M. Graff, Foreign Affairs, 5 May 2023
• Some even incorporate items from Adelman’s studio, like ceramics, as well as aflame glass oil lamps.
  — ELLE Decor, 18 May 2023
• Governments have spoken out, protests have taken place, social media is aflame.
  — New York Times, 14 May 2021
• Demonstrators rocked a police van, set it ablaze, scrawled graffiti across its charred body and set it aflame again as officers retreated.
  — Sudhin Thanawala, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 May 2020
• Lemon is popular with many of his of his co-workers at CNN, but is known for occasionally making gaffes that can set social media aflame.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024