afire

How To Use afire In A Sentence

• forests set ablaze (or afire) by lightning
• He was afire with every kind of sorrow, lamentation and despair. THE BROKEN GOD
• Dan Neil/The Wall Street Journal Ferrari FF: Sort of cool, sort of not One of the more endearing acts of journalism I've seen was William Safire's occasional "On Language" mea culpa, a column in which the famed word maven would admit to errors and misjudgments—throwing himself on the pikes of the punctilious, as he might say. A Showroom of Regrets: What I Got Wrong in 2011
• a subtone, his brain was afire with keen activity; but unfortunately for the going forward of things, this mental state was divided into so many battalions, led by so many generals, indirectly and indecisively, nowhere. The Place of Honeymoons
• Crooked fingers of lightning nearly lit the sky afire, and the thunder crackled like shots from a cannon.
• Indeed Safire should be remembered, not only as a man passionate about language, but as a civil and urbane conservative who, I would like to believe, was as appalled by the current outbreak of right-wing political ergotism as am I. Archive 2009-09-01
• Twelve Fireflies and nine Seafires from HMS Triumph armed with rockets attacked Haeju Airfield, damaging hangars and buildings, but no aircraft were sighted.
• Plauen and the Safire attacked the Toal with the puny spells at their command. The Swordbearer
• Hundreds of small wooden fishing boats are set afire and dozens are torn to pieces by the blast.
• He perceived that another part of the fence was afire and that it was fast running along the dried grass to the ginhouse. Memorials of a southern planter,