How to Use inferno in a Sentence

inferno

noun

• By the time help arrived, the fire had grown to a raging inferno.
• The home of Roger Derry, 80, and his son, Rodger, was spared by the inferno.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 21 Aug. 2022
• The crash caused an inferno that could be seen for miles.
  — Dallas News, 23 Mar. 2022
• On the lawn, a small blonde woman gazes up at the inferno.
  — Philippa Snow, The New Republic, 19 Mar. 2020
• The inferno reduced a large swath of the town to rubble and ash.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2022
• The two girls were killed in the inferno, along with their uncle.
  — Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2021
• Even the ancient 150-year-old Banyan tree, a guardian of my youth, was marred by the inferno.
  — Time, 17 Aug. 2023
• The video shows the deadly inferno aboard the craft as the Coast Guard chopper arrived on the scene.
  — Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2019
• Then there were a bunch of vibrant green trees — spared from the inferno.
  — Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2024
• But the fire spread so quickly and burned over the cameras in a fiery inferno.
  — Kellie Hwang, SFChronicle.com, 19 Aug. 2020
• The inferno could be seen for miles as flames raced across tinder-dry grass and brush.
  — Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 24 Oct. 2019
• To win, the Fritzlers will have to show in court that their company was not to blame for the inferno.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2019
• The inferno blocked the escape route of those bedded down on the bottom deck.
  — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2023
• The young man’s mother got out, but her son, Tim Hurley, died in the inferno.
  — Diane Bell Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2021
• As the buildings in the town caught fire, the theater filled with the roaring, crackling sounds of an inferno.
  — Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Jan. 2022
• With cell service and power out, many people were left in the dark — in the path of an inferno.
  — Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 6 Feb. 2024
• Those who died in the inferno were sleeping below deck and could not escape the flames.
  — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2019
• The inferno the bombs created reduced an area of 15.8 square miles to ash.
  — Brad Lendon and Emiko Jozuka, CNN, 7 Mar. 2020
• Twice in the last 10 days, though, Murphy has poured gas on what’s already an inferno.
  — Rob Reischel, Forbes, 15 June 2021
• The inferno was moving so fast, the governor said, that some fire trucks were caught in its path.
  — Mike Baker, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2023
• An inferno raged on the top floor; in the galleries, metal and wood were reduced to heat, light and ash; stone cracked and shattered.
  — New York Times, 4 Mar. 2021
• In moments, with the help of the cotton balls and a match, the pile became a miniature inferno, warming the tips of my frozen fingers.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Nov. 2022
• This time, the decision to remove him from the game won’t add fuel to the Lakers’ inferno.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2022
• Two teenagers were forced to escape the inferno by climbing a pipe down an outer wall.
  — Wilfred Chan, Curbed, 9 July 2022
• At least one witness saw Romero trying to douse the house fire — an inferno at that point — with a garden hose.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2022
• At least three fires have now merged, forming the one massive inferno.
  — Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2020
• Granite boulders were charred and flaked from the inferno.
  — Brian Melley, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2023
• The basement of the Vernon church, built in 1919, was one of the only structures from before the inferno left intact.
  — Victor Luckerson, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2020
• An inferno was approaching from the south as the owner and others fled for their lives.
  — Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 31 July 2024
• In 2018, a worn suspension hook on a transmission tower broke and dropped a high-voltage powerline onto combustible vegetation, sparking the Camp Fire, an inferno that razed the town of Paradise, California.
  — Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024