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Example sentences for "ablaze"

Lexicographically close words:
abjured; abjures; abjuring; ablation; ablative; able; abler; ablest; abloom; ablution
  1. The flower-beds were ablaze with bulb plants.

  2. In the London production this was ablaze every night with wax candles.

  3. Queed sitting before the table, his gas ablaze and his shade up, tilted back his chair and thought of her now.

  4. It is June of the Centennial year, and all the land is ablaze with patriotic fervor.

  5. Varia's eyes were all ablaze with anger; but the scene had a different effect on Nina Alexandrovna.

  6. Her face was pale, as it had been in the morning, and her eyes were ablaze with bright but subdued fire.

  7. I tell you it's true," said Rogojin quietly, but with eyes ablaze with passion.

  8. But in the dreaded Valley several trees were ablaze with blossom, and oranges shone like small balls of gold in the rising sun.

  9. The ride over the grassy uplands was splendid; the ground was ablaze with flowers, and the peaks rose violently blue from a black belt of pinewood.

  10. It was a tiny hole of a room, but its dirty stone walls were ablaze with glittering golden embroideries and it was lighted by oil lamps.

  11. The grand-stands are all ablaze with flowers.

  12. Reflecting thus, his tail ablaze As through the cloud red lightning plays, He scaled the palaces and spread The conflagration where he sped.

  13. Ablaze with gems, no dust might dim The bright attire that covered him.

  14. No eye on such a deer can rest But soft enchantment takes the breast: No man so fair a thing behold Ablaze with light of radiant gold, Celestial, bright with jewels’ sheen, Nor marvel when his eyes have seen.

  15. There wrought of gold, ablaze with shine Of precious stones, were cups of wine.

  16. We walked through the streets by big gardens that seemed jest ablaze with color and swoonin' with perfume.

  17. Madras has more than half a million inhabitants, and it looked well from the steamer: handsome villas, beautiful tropical trees, and hull forests of cactus ablaze with their gorgeous blossoms.

  18. He raised her left hand, kissed it lightly, and as she withdrew her fingers and resumed her seat, in front of an ottoman ablaze with a tangled mass of brilliant Berlin wool, he sat down at her side.

  19. O thou who art ablaze with the fire of the Love of.

  20. Verily, Thou art witnessing that the fire is ablaze in the breasts, the tears are streaming from the eyes and the period of patience and silence hath come to an end.

  21. Know thou, verily, I read thy letter which expressed the commemoration of thy Lord, the Great, and indicated that the fire of the love of god is ablaze in thy heart and in the soul of the sincere ones.

  22. This is a lamp lighted by the fire of Thy love and ablaze with the flame which is ignited in the tree of Thy mercy.

  23. It is incumbent upon thee to boil forth like unto the fire ablaze in Sinai, so that thou mayest attract hearts unto the Kingdom of the Merciful.

  24. O thou who art ablaze with the fire of the Love of God!

  25. The dawn was hastening with great leaps of light that shot in broad bars from the darkest spot in all the dark horizon; the spot which would soon be the brightest, ablaze with the sun himself.

  26. Roshan's knowledge of etiquette was sound, yet at that very moment Laila, ablaze with gold and jewels, was meeting her lover's eyes with a happy laugh.

  27. Darkness had fallen, while he had been inside; now the whole Company Reservation was ablaze with electric lights.

  28. The Company reservation was still ablaze with lights, and over the roof of the hospital and dispensary and test-lab he could see the glare of the burning barracks.

  29. The congregation stands, as in the Jewish synagogues, and those of highest rank are nearest the altar, invariably ablaze with gold, silver and precious stones, while on occasions the priest wears cloth of gold.

  30. The setting ablaze of the five casks, and later on of the eight casks, by the Grand Master, was a signal for the others to kindle their fires in the different parts of the town.

  31. All the heights are ablaze with them, as far as the eye can see.

  32. In time a prince came a-wooing, followed by a train of gorgeous knights and squires on horses all ablaze with gold and silver.

  33. On the Madonie mountains, in the north of the island, the herdsmen kindle them at intervals, so that the crests of the mountains are seen ablaze in the darkness for many miles.

  34. Another tree with silvery bark had every leafless branch ablaze with orange vermilion flowers.

  35. The ships in the bay are ablaze with flags, and the sides of the Apollo Bundar (the landing place of the Prince) are a mass of decorations and flags.

  36. Marie stood there in Court dress, her long train held by pages in the Reist livery, her neck and arms ablaze with jewels, a coronet of pearls upon her forehead.

  37. A sudden passionate impulse came to him to seize the little white hand all ablaze with jewels which hung over the arm of her chair so near to his.

  38. Through the open windows came the sound of ascending rockets hissing through the still night air--the grounds were ablaze with lights.

  39. She drives through Kent, "where the fields, valleys, and slopes are garlanded with hops and ablaze with scarlet poppies.

  40. Kindle the taper like the steadfast star Ablaze on evening's forehead o'er the earth, And add each night a lustre till afar An eightfold splendor shine above thy hearth.

  41. At first there seems to have been some stress of poverty: salaries were low, life was unsettled; no one knew what quarter of Europe would next be set ablaze by the indomitable activity of Napoleon.

  42. Pushing on rapidly we reached a large house on a hill above the Nottoway, and entered the tall gateway at the moment when the great windows were all ablaze in the sunset.

  43. In passing through the Court-House we observed the windows of a large building all ablaze with lights, and heard the merry notes of music.

  44. The people were ablaze with wild enthusiasm; the soldiers flushed with the pride of their great victories of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville.

  45. Next day, through whispering aisles of palm we rode Up to the foot-hills, dreaming desert-hills That to assuage their own delicious drought Had set each tawny sun-kissed slope ablaze With peach and orange orchards.

  46. And oftentimes I would die the death, yet wake up to life anew; The sun would be all ablaze on the waste, and the sky a blighting blue, And the tears would rise in my snow-blind eyes and furrow my cheeks like dew.

  47. The windows were all still ablaze with light, and the bar and the tap-room were uproarious with fun.

  48. The eastern horizon was ablaze with glory.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ablaze" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ablaze; afire; aglow; alight; ardent; bespangled; blazing; breathless; burning; cordial; delirious; drunk; enlightened; enthusiastic; excited; exuberant; febrile; fervent; fervid; feverish; fiery; flagrant; flaming; flaring; flashing; flashy; flickering; flushed; fuming; gaslit; glowing; hearty; heated; hot; ignited; illuminated; impassioned; incandescent; inflamed; intense; intoxicated; irradiated; keen; kindled; lighted; lightened; lit; live; lively; living; luminous; meteoric; moonlit; passionate; radiant; reeking; scintillating; smoking; smoldering; spangled; starlit; steaming; steamy; studded; sunlit; unextinguished; unrestrained; vigorous; warm; dissolution; dissolve; dive; down; downfall; downgrade; downpour; downturn; draining; droop; drop; dwindling; ebb; erupt; exhaustion; fade; fail; failure; faint; fall; fate; fatigue; fizzle; flag; flake; flop; fold; founder; fragility; frailty; gasp; get; give; gravitate; gravitation; harm; hiding; hurt; hurting; inclination; infringement; injury; inroad; insolvency; irresolution; jade; lack; lag; languish; lapse; licking; lightness; loss; maiming; mastery; miscarriage; mischief; mutilation; naught; overdose; overdraft; overthrow; overturn; pant; parachute; pass; perish; pine; pitch; plummet; plummeting; plump; plunge; pounce; precipitate; prostration; puff; puncture; quietus; rain; rapids; remission; retreat; rout; ruin; ruination; sabotage; scathe; shipwreck; shock; sicken; sink; slowdown; slump; smash; stoop; stumble; subdual; subduing; subjugation; subsidence; succumb; sway; swoop; take; thrashing; tire; topple; totter; trauma; trimming; trouncing; tumble; undoing; wane; want; washout; waterfall; weaken; weakening; weary; wheeze; whipping; wilt; wither; wrack; wreck; yield