How to Use wildfire in a Sentence

wildfire

noun

• The recent wildfires were made worse by the strong winds.
• Pruitt chalks this up to the abundance of wildfires and droughts that plague the West.
  — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 24 Apr. 2023
• And that group took off like a wildfire and spread all over the country.
  — David Begnaud, CBS News, 25 Mar. 2023
• The slang term that caught on like wildfire at the top of 2022 was no accident.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 21 Mar. 2023
• Heat licked up her spine, as swift and sudden as wildfire.
  — Jessica Leon, EW.com, 27 Feb. 2023
• This ensures the wildfire has nothing to feed on and stops it from growing.
  — Kira Caspers, The Arizona Republic, 28 June 2024
• The enormous York wildfire will contribute to the problem.
  — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2023
• As of late July more than 600 wildfires were out of control in Canada.
  — Seth Borenstein, Fortune, 31 July 2023
• The area had been scorched by a wildfire and left vulnerable to flooding.
  — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 11 Jan. 2023
• Maui's 150-year-old banyan tree is growing leaves after being charred by the wildfires.
  — Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 5 Oct. 2023
• In March, more than two-thirds of voters agreed to raise the city’s sales tax by .5% to fund wildfire prevention measures.
  — Stephen Hobbs, Sacramento Bee, 2 May 2024
• The supernatural event was brought on by a wildfire, and when the show picks up, that fire is still raging.
  — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 1 Feb. 2023
• By summer, smoke from Canadian wildfires choked the once-clean air.
  — Megan Mayhew Bergman, The Atlantic, 20 July 2023
• The hot and dry conditions have also been conducive to wildfires.
  — Zaeem Shaikh, Dallas News, 7 July 2023
• The air was boggy and smelled acrid with everything cast in a sepia-like haze as smoke from the wildfires still raging up in Canada rolled over the city.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 10 July 2023
• There are more and more wildfires not just in Spain and Portugal, but even Germany and Canada.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 21 Oct. 2024
• The scene for the 2018 disaster was set by the wildfire, which left behind an ashen surface that made the soil in the burn area less able to absorb water.
  — Corina Knoll, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2023
• Harris talked about the climate crisis and how the land that tribes have called home is being threatened by wildfires, droughts and floods.
  — Allie Feinberg, The Arizona Republic, 6 July 2023
• The robust rain and cool temperatures have reduced the risk of wildfires.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Oct. 2023
• More than 1 million acres of land have burned up in the fires, including the Smokehouse Creek Fire, the largest wildfire in Texas history.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 7 Mar. 2024
• The governor made the comments at a news event to promote the state’s response to wildfires and a deadly heat wave blanketing the west.
  — Nicole Nixon, Sacramento Bee, 10 July 2024
• That would reduce the chances that thunderstorms will start wildfires in the backcountry.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2024
• The 10-year average is three wildfires burning 2 acres.
  — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
• California’s Joshua trees have suffered a similar fate in the face of the state’s wildfires.
  — Christian Orozco, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2024
• Unlike many who grieved the loss of trees, Hinatsu took a more pragmatic approach to the wildfire.
  — oregonlive, 22 Jan. 2023
• More than two thirds of U.S. buildings destroyed in wildfires were in the West, and 79.5 percent of buildings burned in them were in shrublands and grasslands, the researchers found.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 9 Nov. 2023
• An expanse of green tundra maybe 100 meters long looked as if it had been burned—only there hadn't been any wildfire.
  — Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 19 Dec. 2023
• The Smokehouse Creek fire is one of five large wildfires currently burning in the Texas Panhandle.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 29 Feb. 2024
• Once established, the plants shouldn’t need much water, but the crossing will have an irrigation system installed that can be activated to wet down the crossing in the event of a wildfire.
  — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2024
• Across the Northeast, officials have warned residents not to throw cigarettes or matches on the ground and to extinguish fires with plenty of water as dry conditions and windy conditions elevate the risk of wildfires.
  — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024