flare up

How To Use flare up In A Sentence

• Things that even in better writing only smouldered, flare up here in full force.
• Some men will hide in the coils of DNA, a few atoms that spell red hair, and they'll flare up for centuries to come like a fire in a coal seam, stubborn and inextinguishable.
• She poked at the fire causing it to flare up and throw more shadows across their faces.
• They were the sort of conflicts that frequently flare up along any ill-defined border which is straddled by farming communities.
• Don'tspill too much fat on the barbecue as it could flare up.
• Major resentments in the fleet flare up without the need for groundwork or foreshadowing, and go silent with equal abruptness. MIND MELD: If We Ran Battlestar Galactica
• The rough bare boards of the walls, naked but for one old picture of a horse cut from a magazine, carefully pasted upside down, and probably designed chiefly to cover some defective spot that was admitting too much coldness; the crazy table shaking with every gust and causing a tiny kerosene lamp to flare up and menace the dim religious darkness by depositing even more lamp-black than was its wont on its already negrine globe; the meagre board of dark bread, "oleo," and molasses; the weird minstrelsy of the hurricane -- the whole a harmony of poverty and war. Labrador Days Tales of the Sea Toilers
• He forced himself onto his knees, ignoring the dull throb of pain that threatened to flare up any second and crawled a few inches, feeling the air blindly in front of him, before stopping to listen.
• Things that even in better writing only smouldered, flare up here in full force.
• Shove a lit roadflare up your ass until you die in agonizing pain you pitiful subhuman punk Think Progress » Will Tea Parties Embrace Movement Pushing To Portray Women From Mexico As ‘Welfare Queens’?