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
• The Mosquito Fire is the state's largest wildfire this year.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 17 Sep. 2022
• Losses due to wildfire added up to $5.1 billion over the past 10 years.
  — Op Almaraz, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
• Discontent spread like wildfire to the countries of the East bloc.
  — ABC News, 30 Aug. 2022
• 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 wildfire, which is now 96% contained, exploded to that size in less than 48 hours.
  — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 5 Sep. 2022
• Their rental house, in South Lake Tahoe, backed up to the forest that had been devastated by the wildfire in 2021.
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
• At sunset, the wildfire haze stretched across the Western horizon.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2022
• 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
• Pine trees are accustomed to wildfire, and pinecones are hardy enough to protect their seeds from fire.
  — Katie Nadworny, The Atlantic, 28 Oct. 2022
• 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
• Homes in the Malibu area have been damaged by wildfires in the past, and celebrities have been among those impacted.
  — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 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
• Tighter sequences in years strained by drought or cut short by a passing wildfire scarring the bark, pausing progress.
  — The Arizona Republic, 14 Dec. 2022
• And the widespread wildfires in Los Angeles last month could have led consumers there to cut back even further.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 14 Feb. 2025
• Valentine’s Day feels somber in Los Angeles in the wake of the devastating wildfires.
  — Jessica Ourisman, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 1 Mar 2025