aflame

How To Use aflame In A Sentence

• Who dareth name the fiend?" croaked an awful voice, whereat Black Lewin halted, gaped and stood a-tremble, while beneath steel cap and bascinet all men's hair stirred and rose with horror; for before them was a ghastly shape, a shape that crouched in the gloom with dreadful face aflame with smouldering green fire. The Geste of Duke Jocelyn
• Most of the city was aflame, and bitter fighting had taken over the downtown suburbs.
• If would have been quite hilarious to see the pampered boys' reaction to having his expensive clothing set aflame.
• Evening Standard, the financial district is "aflame" with the idea, being loudly repeated by well-informed "gossips. Fast Company
• Then a rain of fire arrows light the ladders as some hit the soldiers setting them aflame.
• Most of the city was aflame, and bitter fighting had taken over the downtown suburbs.
• Residents reported grenades setting police cars aflame in the heart of the city.
• The names usually refer to the tall flowering spike which in medieval times was dipped in tallow and set aflame as a torch in the evening.
• Backing out faster than a drunkard reversing his vehicle, cheeks aflame, Jody remembers the useful rule of always knocking before entering.
• To his horror he saw that the thatch was aflame, the rotten pillars were catching fire one by one, and the rafters were burning like tinder. The Art of the Story-Teller