Definition: 1. The process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke. 2. Shine with a sudden light. 3. Be in flames or aflame. 4. Criticize harshly, on the e-mail.
Use 'flame' in a sentence:
1. They reached safety seconds before the building was engulfed in flames.
2. They got out of the house just before the flames took hold.
3. Flames devoured the house.
4. She felt colour flame up in her cheeks.
5. The thought fluttered in her mind like a flame-attracted moth.
6. It stands in sharp contrast to Sanchez, this other gadget, a gas powered flame rekiller, invented in 1997.
7. His writings fanned the flames of racism.
8. There was a whoosh as everything went up in flames.
9. Let your life come amongst them like a flame of light, unflickering and pure, and delight them into silence.
10. Firefighters tried to extinguish the flames.
11. A kind of spectroscopic library of elements was compiled using flame tests.
12. I desperately squirted water on the flames.
13. Firemen tried to quench the flames raging through the building.
14. The idea comes from a St Andrews University scientist challenged to find out just what is inside a flame.
15. My husband, an otherwise sensible man, has the regrettable habit of turning on the television each and every morning, like a moth to the flame.
16. Everything went up in flames.
17. The hillsides in June flame with azaleas.
18. Intense balls of flame rose up into the sky.
19. Flames spewed from the aircraft's engine.
20. At every turn smoke and flame stopped efforts to get into the living quarters.
21. Witnesses spoke of a great ball of flame.
22. They watched helplessly as their home went up in flames.
23. The Mexican flame-knee tarantula was studied via its molted exoskeleton, which incidentally came from Rind's pet tarantula, Fluffy.
24. It was the third time one of his cars had gone up in flames.
25. Her cheeks flamed with rage.
26. There are standard-shaped bulbs, flame-shaped bulbs, colored globe-shaped bulbs, and more.
27. Great tongues of flame shot up here and there.
28. Hope flamed in her.
29. He gave her "a queer sort of moth-and-flame feeling", so she followed.
30. As he came closer he saw a gigantic wall of raging flame before him.
31. The building was in flames.
32. He tried to smother the flames with a blanket.
33. The electric wand in the experiments essentially uses electricity to push the flame away from the burner, detaching it from the fuel source, so it goes out.
34. The logs flamed on the hearth.
35. The custom of lighting the Olympic flame goes back centuries.
36. An electric field pushes a flame away from a burner in a recent Harvard experiment.
37. I dreamed I was a spaceman, burned like a moth in a flame.
38. A coal slipped, the fire crackled and sent up a spurt of flame, and he woke with a start.
39. The moon began to show her silver flame.
40. She met an old flame at the party.
41. We may all see it in the sunshine; and it glows like a red flame in the dark.
42. The flames were now licking at their feet.
43. Flames were shooting up through the roof.
44. The house was now a shell gutted by flames.
45. If the shell turns black in the flame, death is not far away.
46. The plane burst into flame.
47. The two sheets of flame clashed, soaring hundreds of feet high.
48. Sue was seen dating an old flame.
49. Can the heart's flame die in the flame of the funeral pile?
50. Red and yellow flames spurted out of the fire.
51. The flames spread to all parts of the house within minutes of ignition.
52. The flame sputters out.
53. The best way to respond to a flame is to ignore it.
54. Flames melted a lead pipe and ignited leaking gas.
55. Edison's bulb is, at its core, a burning filament that casts the glow of a flame.
56. In our case, air flow is generated inside the flame.
