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Sentence Examples The night-time skyline of downtown San Francisco looked nearly as ablaze as ever as the weekend started. At first glance, the streets are ablaze with colors strewn across an endless canvas of neon signs with undecipherable writing. A wood-pigeon is cooing lazily in the distance, and the gardens are ablaze with laburnums and rhododendrons. Soon the leaves will turn and the ground will be ablaze with autumn's botanical fire. The Lynx came down on its right-hand side, with the main rotor and tail sheared off by the impact and the cabin ablaze. Within seconds, the classroom was ablaze and flames began licking towards the roof and windows. Well-intentioned U.N. officials had to run from their cars, which were then looted and set ablaze. Observe the gleam of the soldiers' swords by the light of the torches used for illumination and setting villages ablaze. In 99 Cent, the store bins filled with candy and cookies are ablaze with a riotous display of buy-me colors. Five minutes later, one appliance went to a cooker ablaze in Fairclough Avenue but that had been put out before they arrived. Many motoring magazines are to blame for this fairly recent phenomenon of lights misuse, showing road tests of new cars with all lights ablaze. Both men saw the rabbit race from the branches with his little puffy tail ablaze. Lee awoke in the early hours of the morning to find the front of his house ablaze with fierce flames lapping against the bedroom window. Hotel staff have told Scotland on Sunday that the man can be seen with matches deliberately setting the curtain ablaze. Police believe dissidents deliberately set the car ablaze in the knowledge that someone would contact the emergency services. Heart ablaze and head blowing clouds of smoke, the mail train thundered into the platform and ground to a halt. You are ablaze with cheerful self-assurance, and passionate about achieving your aims. The bed was ablaze with the yellow flowers, and here, large humming squadrons of shiny black carpenter bees would thrum from pre-dawn onwards. Mrs Gallagher's son had left the house shortly after 9.30 pm. and when he returned at 10.40 pm the entire building was ablaze. Chessington Library was set ablaze with the result that the main part of the library is unusable due to the roof being unsafe. Show More Sentences All the people in the building were rescued and within a very short time the whole place was utterly ablaze. Two of the vehicles were set ablaze in the attack while the third vehicle managed to escape. The perimeter fence was also set ablaze, windows smashed, plants destroyed and buildings daubed with graffiti. Several other businesses, including a chemist which was looted and set ablaze, were attacked along nearby streets. The church is being renovated after having been set ablaze during the 1999-2002 riots. The fire crew had been called to the woodland at 9.25 pm following reports of rubbish and debris being piled up and set ablaze. Four tonnes of hay and straw were also ablaze inside the barn, which was totally destroyed. I eventually crunched my way home through thigh-high drifts of snow, beneath a sky ablaze with the northern lights. French police made more than 250 arrests after nearly 900 cars were set ablaze and nurseries and a school burned overnight. Dozens of town and cities were affected with nearly 9,000 cars set ablaze and more than 3,000 people arrested. Fires sprang up everywhere, spreading from house to house, until the whole town was ablaze. On Friday night 502 vehicles were set ablaze, the highest total for three days, and 206 people were arrested. He had only gone a short distance down the cross road, when a patrol car came skidding around the corner, its lights ablaze. And there it would be, the horizon ablaze with light where the gleaming flames of candles met the distant flicker of stars. Churches were ablaze with colour, and gold highlights glittered in the light of many candles. Just then, this fire truck comes barrelling up in the rear view mirror full speed, sirens and lights ablaze and the dream ends. On nights when the fires are ablaze, the streets, river walks, and footbridges surrounding Waterplace Park bustle with people. Even at midnight, he reports, warehouses and other business locales around the airport are ablaze with lights. Birds chirped, fish jumped, foxes barked, trees and flowers were ablaze with color. The upper floors serve as the couple's home, complete with a spectacular roof-deck garden ablaze with flowers, plants, and vegetables. Show More Sentences Festival lights are ablaze everywhere, and it's been raining nonstop for hours. As she fired, two bombs struck her, one causing the engine room to flood, and the second crashed into the galley setting it ablaze. Sparks arose from the flint and firestone, and soon the torch became ablaze. I'll be making trips to the shop for firelighters and boxes of briquettes to set ablaze. His vision no longer impeded, Sid looked down at the board, ablaze with multi-colored lights. Nikolai waited for them in front of the building, whose curved face was ablaze with light. Last Saturday on the dual carriageway I was overtaken by a speeding car all lights ablaze. It followed one on Saturday that set a gas pipeline ablaze in the western desert and which Oil Ministry officials said was due to sabotage. He told Newswatch that the present war started because restive Ijaw youths attacked and set ablaze six of the Itsekiri's riverine villages. I let out a tired sigh that had the effect of setting the whole dormitory ablaze with laughter. His comment set the internet ablaze with speculation that the entire episode was a hoax. Today, his band is again getting ready to set the music charts ablaze with the launch of their new album. Yet the media and the blogosphere have been ablaze with Tory talk of the unacceptable politicisation of the police under Labour. He lives in a posh, modern mid-rise, its lobby ablaze in polished surfaces that gleam like gold teeth. The dawn was rising, all pinks and yellows spilling out on the trees, setting what snow remained ablaze in a curtain of white. By 5.22 pm Scharnhorst was surrounded and illuminated by star shells as heavy guns and torpedoes pounded into her, setting her ablaze end to end. Instead of being ablaze with revolt, the country was swept by a tide of reaction. No charges were laid against them, as they could all account for their whereabouts the night Seecharan was set ablaze. The room was ablaze with white wax candles, and the walls were slats of wood, smooth and splinterless mahogany brown in color. I looked around the lush African foliage, multicoloured flowers ablaze amidst the verdant Nairobi green. Show More Sentences A number of units arrived on the scene within a matter of minutes and broke through the locked gates to where the contents of a skip were ablaze. He was beaten until he lay writhing helplessly on the ground, whereupon his captors doused his body with kerosene and set it ablaze. Ten ravishing models from Bangalore, dressed in clothes designed by fashion technology students, set the ramp ablaze. All of a sudden the sky went from red to black and a strong gust of wind estimated at about 100 knots blew fist-sized embers into the yard, setting it ablaze. Social media is ablaze over the Ray Rice video, wondering why his future wife stayed. There was a wide central passage, ablaze with light and lined with wooden racks and storage compartments. Almost 3,000 acres of forest were ablaze just south of Emigrant Gap. Nearly 10,000 cars were set ablaze with arson attacks against schools, police stations, gymnasiums, shops and businesses in poor suburbs across the country. The cave was ablaze with light, but Ian couldn't determine its source. It was like a ballroom, all ablaze with light and pearly white walls. Any worries stemming from everyday living are quickly obliterated under the immensity of the night skies, ablaze with stars as far as the eye can see. Dawn had set the eastern horizon ablaze when they set out southward again. To our amazement a train suddenly appears, three lights ablaze. Once again the palace was ablaze with lights of all descriptions. The world is already ablaze with ethnic and religious hatred. Chat boards are once again ablaze with the number of postings. When I woke up, Facebook and Twitter were ablaze with patriotism. The second boat then came adrift, floating down the river ablaze. A nearby curious wormfish with stripe ablaze was not as sure. The windows were ablaze with light, the heavy wooden doors still open. Show More Sentences Big scary Transformer-like robots with heads ablaze that frighten the kids back across the treacherous desert? As the cross is secured, the youngsters heap the combustible material around the pole, and it is set ablaze by the man to last marry in the village. We are going a roundabout way to the village via a quiet length of top road and track and then an abandoned rail line of cinder trackbed ablaze with fireweed. As mortars aboard the ammunition truck exploded, they set a nearby fuel tanker truck ablaze, sending clouds of black smoke billowing into the sky. At the turn of the last century, botanists reported forests ablaze with the scarlet blooms of native mistletoes, but today few areas of New Zealand support profuse growth. While we watch fires ablaze in the Middle East and judge other peoples as uncivilized, have we not lost civilization here? In a separate incident, a woman died when her attempts to fight off the cold with a space heater and candles set her New York City apartment ablaze. Suddenly, the haymow was ablaze with a searing, white light. The town was ablaze, the wooden palisade was a now raging ring of inferno. Toe-curlingly fresh, the wash is ablaze with tart apple and citric zing. In their effort to stay warm, they kept their fireplace ablaze by burning library books, feeding the fire continually for that much needed warmth. This important conclusive finding immediately sets at rest the allegation that a mob poured inflammables from outside into the compartment and set the rail compartment ablaze. She tapped her rod a few times, and it came ablaze with fiery light. Her hand rose, clenched into a fist, and a brilliant red-gold beam of crackling, coruscating light soared up into the sky and set it ablaze with Imperial flame. The front nearside wheel arch was on fire and the bonnet ablaze. Before the end of 1862, some Sioux Indians set a part of Like a Fishhook Village ablaze. The telephone threat was made to Ian Hughes the day after his wife had returned home to find the utility room at their home ablaze. Dorjee Richen set himself ablaze on October 23 in his homeland Tibet against the rising Chinese atrocities. People trapped in a block of flats set ablaze by arsonists today called for them to be pulled down. During this action Pilot Officer Dredge was shot down, his aircraft ablaze. Show More Sentences Oil in general has been used since early human history to keep fires ablaze and in warfare. The aircraft damaged an electricity pylon as it came down and was ablaze when firefighters arrived at the scene. When Holly and Jessica were killed the pricket stands at Soham Parish Church were ablaze with light. With most of the country now ablaze, this argument is less convincing. A FAULT FAUL Y boiler set a kitchen ablaze when it caught re at a house in Mireld yesterday. Despite the rapid advance of the invasion forces, some 44 oil wells were destroyed and set ablaze by Iraqi explosives or by incidental fire. They ran a Union Flag down the pole and tried to set it ablaze but it didn't catch fire. The radar of radio beacon installations, the railway station and other vital areas were ablaze. The mob attacked the prison gates with shovels and pickaxes, set the building ablaze, and released the prisoners inside. Eight corners of the building were set ablaze, and a Molotov cocktail was thrown at a window. Under Antonello Allemandi's expansive direction, the orchestra was ablaze with colorful sonorities. At that time, a pagan army attacked Bamburgh and attempted to set its walls ablaze. A SHAMELESS mum nicknamed Tarty Tara was jailed for two years for setting her house ablaze while her girl of three slept upstairs. Last year the stage and airwaves were set ablaze by three Namibian singing sensations. Neighbours found David Rae, 50, in the street with his clothes ablaze after he was blown from his maisonette by the force of the explosion. Then she hugged the kiddie clost to her, standing straight and queenly, her eyes ablaze, her lips moist, and red, and scornful. The helicopter was set ablaze by fire from assault rifles and heavy machineguns after the craft started blasting them, opposition forces said. The circles, which were ablaze with daffodils this spring, are now afloat with airy geum, cosmos, acidanthera and dahlias. A fire on the island In September 1933 burnt for a week with the island said to be ablaze from end to end. The accused was found guilty of premeditated voluntary manslaughter, committing barbaric acts, attempt to set an inhabited house ablaze, and aggravated theft. Show More Sentences The young Cambridge democrats were all ablaze to assist Torrijos. A friend, partaking in the returning shell suit trend is set ablaze. The following year, partnered by the 18-year-old wunderkind Ivan Vasiliev, she again set the stage ablaze with her daredeviltry, pyrotechnics, and flamboyance. The maitre d' arrived with the baked alaska dessert, pouring a generous shot of whisky around it before setting it ablaze and then covering it with creme anglais. Examples from Classical Literature It is June of the centennial year, and all the land is ablaze with patriotic fervor. Flying embers clattered upon the tindery roof, and in a moment the whole top of the long structure was ablaze. His nostrils were quivering, his eyes were ablaze, and the expression of his face was shocking. In ten minutes we had a roaring fire ablaze, and were washing down with usquebaugh the last trace of unkindness. The garden was all ablaze with geranium and verbena, heliotrope and larkspur. It was the height of the holiday season, and the island seemed to be ablaze with lights. It was now autumn, and to take the chill off the room an oil burner was brightly ablaze. A moment later, and the whole schooner was ablaze, from waterline to masthead. His eyes were ablaze, and there could be no doubt that his fury was at white heat. Suddenly one of the Huns burst into flames and came toppling down behind his lines, his gas tank ablaze. We had to drive through the village a night or two later, and it was all ablaze. They knew the place as well as though the sub-level had been ablaze with light. His eyes were ablaze, and his wide mouth wore its most joyous smile. The windows of the light keeper's cottage were ablaze as they drew near. A FORMER policeman who set ablaze tyres, a water tank and plastic pipes has been jailed for two years. Seeing an 80-foot tree ablaze is unnerving, but Fire Warden Bush said his crew was well trained, and many had experience running fire scenes. But when he saw this small new-comer his soul was all ablaze with bliss in a moment. She held up her hands, small white hands, ablaze with jewels, and looked at them for a moment thoughtfully. Red spurts of flame flickered up from the wreckage until it was all ablaze. Night's ultramarine bosom was ablaze with starry chain of mail. Show More Sentences These pictures show the amazing scenes when Dev escapes alive after warped ex-lover Maya Sharma sets his grocery stores ablaze. The piggery and adjoining buildings were ablaze in several places. Her usually pale cheeks were all ablaze with heat and hurry. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of ablaze? Words that rhyme with ablaze What is the adverb for ablaze? What is the adjective for ablaze? What is the noun for ablaze? Translations for ablaze Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words ablaut ablatives ablative ablations ablation ablating able Able able-bodied abled ableism ableist 6-letter Words Starting With a ab abl abla ablaz