How to Use conflagration in a Sentence

conflagration

noun

• The treaty is the latest attempt to resolve the ten-year conflagration.
• At bedtime, there had been no hint of the conflagration to come.
  — Author: Robin Abcarian, Alaska Dispatch News, 13 Oct. 2017
• The bigger the conflagration and the greater the destruction, the better.
  — Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 July 2017
• The conflagration could be seen from New Haven, 70 miles away.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2023
• But any attack on Iran could go from a show of force by the West, to all-out conflagration in moments.
  — Sam Kiley, CNN, 3 Oct. 2019
• The conflagrations have led tens of thousands of people to flee their homes.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 12 Oct. 2017
• Flames shot from the roof and the church's stately front window glowed from the conflagration inside.
  — Fox News, 6 Dec. 2020
• The conflagration destroyed a third of the city’s buildings.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Republic, 1 Dec. 2020
• No fire jumper wants to be injured on the drop into a conflagration.
  — Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 July 2023
• With the breeze and the conflagration, the nearby buildings and the high-risk rescues, this had all the makings of a large-scale disaster.
  — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 6 May 2024
• Thus far, Pence has been hardly singed by the Trump conflagration.
  — Abigail Tracy, The Hive, 18 May 2017
• But during a free-speech conflagration, who should play the role of enforcer?
  — Vimal Patel, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2023
• Now, the conflagration of Mr. Putin’s war in Ukraine has threatened to strip them of everything again.
  — New York Times, 13 May 2022
• But in many ways, 9/11 — and the epochal conflagration that followed — feels distant.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2020
• But if there’s a loss of life, a large conflagration or one that’s suspicious, the dogs are deployed.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 21 June 2017
• Traces of the last global conflagration are never far off in Poland.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2022
• Land-use changes and the presence of non-native grasses also played a role in the conflagration.
  — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2023
• An op-ed sparked a similar conflagration at the Times in June.
  — Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2020
• Rarely a day passes when there is not a new threat of broader conflagration.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2023
• Barry Allen, who had been the first hero to traverse the multiverse, died in the conflagration, the martyr of a changing era.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 15 Apr. 2022
• At the start of the week the region was shocked by images of wineries burned in the conflagration along with homes and other properties.
  — Chase Difeliciantonio, SFChronicle.com, 3 Oct. 2020
• The landscape was parched and the wind was fierce, and over the next few days the modest blaze exploded into a raging conflagration.
  — Emily Anthes, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
• As a result, the rocket struck one edge of Just Read the Instructions and then raced across the drone ship before the fiery conflagration fell into the ocean.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 17 Nov. 2023
• Imagine the conflagration here had 25 percent been tacked to the cost of Great American, or Paul Brown.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• The blaze Friday was the latest in a long list of deadly e-bike battery conflagrations that have plagued the city in the post-pandemic era.
  — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 24 Feb. 2024
• An investigation found there had been 11 fires in the two and a half years leading up to the conflagration.
  — Allen G. Breed and Randy Herschaft, Anchorage Daily News, 11 July 2023
• The conflict has steadily ratcheted up to the brink of all-out war, raising fears of a region-wide conflagration.
  — Kareem Chehayeb, Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2024
• Still, on the night the conflagration blew up in Santa Cruz County, they were caught off guard, and some orders were issued too late.
  — Ingfei Chen, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2022
• Land clearing and logging slash fed serial conflagrations, which blew up in the late 19th and early 20th centuries – the waning decades of the Little Ice Age.
  — Stephen Pyne, The Conversation, 22 Jan. 2025
• Still, while California wildfires are a natural part of the landscape, the threat of urban conflagrations also extend past the state.
  — Solcyré Burga, TIME, 17 Jan. 2025