How to Use conflagration in a Sentence

conflagration

noun

• The treaty is the latest attempt to resolve the ten-year conflagration.
• The conflagration could be seen from New Haven, 70 miles away.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Facebook’s satellite had been in place during the test—a time-saving measure—and was lost in the conflagration.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 14 July 2023
• Too much fuel in too thick of forests leads to massive conflagrations.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
• Today, two questions are vital: Have the conflagrations of recent years pushed the blocs off their old path?
  — Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak, Fortune, 12 Feb. 2024
• The fire of Auburn hoops is consuming all the oxygen from Athens to Atlanta, and devoured Crean’s big dreams in the conflagration.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 20 Jan. 2022
• His greatest achievement was allowing the Cold War to end without a war or a worse conflagration that the world feared for decades.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2022
• Nothing would please Trump diehards more than the eruption of an all-out conflagration around Capitol Hill.
  — Arkansas Online, 4 Jan. 2021
• Nuvamsa said the damage from the 2002 conflagration could have been much worse.
  — AZCentral.com, 26 June 2022
• Their message to the Israeli government is clear: Eliminate the threat, even at the risk of a wider conflagration.
  — Neri Zilber, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Nov. 2023
• This invasion set off a proxy war between the two nuclear powers—and the first conflagration of the Cold War.
  — Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 24 June 2020
• Since then, Hezbollah has continued to design its attacks to stay below the threshold of a full-scale conflagration.
  — Dana Stroul, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024