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How to use go up in flames in a sentence

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Then all of a sudden I just saw all of the downstairs go up in flames, and all the windows smashed.
If, heaven forbid, his home and studio were to go up in flames, after his beloved wife what would he save?
In the aftermath of a collision cars with full fuel tanks tend to go up in flames killing the occupants who might have survived the collision.
Fire blazed up in fury and the girl ran outside and watched the house she once lived in go up in flames.
Young J: The offices did not go up in flames, but the journalists are really feeling the heat.
She still loved Sue, but she wasn't willing to risk having her house go up in flames.
The only guarantee that Bosnia or Kosovo, or the entire Balkans for that matter, will not go up in flames again tomorrow.
The body of Leclair was recognizable because of his long beard, which miraculously did not go up in flames.
Should we wait until we get situations like those in Italy, where entire camps go up in flames?
We could also see that sugarcane did not go up in flames when lighted, whereas corn did.
Incadescent sculpture is putting on a bed of wood shavings and go up in flames.
The western part of the city in particular has been constantly pounded by Russian artillery, and factories and apartment blocks go up in flames after air raids.
An accident can happen suddenly and quickly cost a lot: the toaster can go up in flames and damage your kitchen, a break-in while you are out, your children's football can smash next-door's window?
And if it's done too slowly your arms go up in flames.
Obviously, with a nuclear Iran, it is the non-proliferation policy and treaty that would go up in flames with incalculable consequences that would follow for the whole of the Middle East and beyond.
A brilliant second of the raid and a credible contender for final victory on the morning of stage 5, the Nice resident saw his dreams go up in flames after a very rough fall on the road to Antofagasta.
It hurt seeing the Aldi supermarket go up in flames.
When, ten years later, the suburbs go up in flames, a posting by Mathieu Kassovitz on his blog gives way to an exchange of polite but uncompromising emails with the Home Minister at the time.
However, your hopes of saving money on fuel will go up in flames when you factor in the astronomical price of this full-size SUV... unless you plan on using it exclusively in the city.
Examples from Classical Literature
The old Hanseatic port city of Lubeck was the first to go up in flames, then Rostock and Stettin.
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