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Example sentences for "aflame"

Lexicographically close words:
affusion; afghani; afield; afin; afire; afloat; afoor; afoot; afor; afore
  1. Presently he rushed back to the house with cheeks aflame and eyes ablaze with excitement.

  2. They smote the astonished van of the mob like a thunderbolt, Carpenter leading by several steps, his face aflame with his desperate resolve.

  3. And so--that fellow Carthew will be Earl of Jura," he said suddenly, and looked up at Captain Dove with a hell of hate aflame behind his dull eyes.

  4. The time for the coming of a prophet and a teacher could not be long delayed, and a foreboding of his imperious destiny, dark with war and aflame with God's judgment, had already begun to steal across Mahomet's hesitant soul.

  5. His eloquence was seraphic; his lips had been touched with a live coal from the altar of God; his soul was aflame with the Gospel.

  6. These remarks were so markedly addressed to Jack, that no one but himself could venture to reply, and his self-will was so much ruffled by the deliberate ignoring of his expressed determination that he was instantly aflame with wrath.

  7. It is all so strange, dear lady, that it seems more like a dream," said Star, now with her cheeks aflame from the bathing and the attending excitement of the ordeal through which she had passed.

  8. The town was aflame with wrath and the troops were removed to the barracks outside to prevent further bloodshed.

  9. The first to obey that awful summons was Agamemnon; for this was to be his great day, and his heart was aflame with the lust of slaughter.

  10. Mr. Crowninshield was aflame with his project.

  11. Santa Paula, fresh from its war, was aflame with patriotism.

  12. And yet Langdon, careless and easy, was aflame with the fire of battle.

  13. Johnston, the silent and alert, was himself with them now, and aflame with zeal they were advancing on the run straight for the heart of the Northern army.

  14. His toga is disordered, his countenance aflame with wine and passion.

  15. No hope have I, and yet I love my strength Away--my heart and soul are all aflame With a wild conflagration.

  16. We found Thrasymene illumined with rosy morning fires, her hills empurpled, and the towers of her little cities aflame with sunrise.

  17. And there we waited while the sky glowed from gold to rose, and Thrasymene seemed aflame with Hannibal's desire for Rome.

  18. He turns, half hesitating: anger's red ensign still aflame on his honest face.

  19. It was to one of the Queen Anne houses with which Chelsea abounds, and as he drove towards it he noted the little windows aflame with light and colour in the blue summer night.

  20. He raised his face, deadly pale, from his hands; but gradually it went aflame with the joy and rapture of sacrifice, and taking his manuscript, he lighted it in the gas.

  21. And now her voice was released again, and her unchained soul, aflame with its long-silent love for the courts of Zion, found in that voice its highway up to God.

  22. Their dear South land was aflame with early summer, and my idea of Paradise was revised.

  23. Round the moorside, on which the cottage was built, there bent a circling edge of wood, now aflame with all the colour of late autumn.

  24. In the great cheap shop at the head of it, aflame with lights from top to base, you could see the buyers story after story, swarming like bees in a glass hive.

  25. She liked him in his grave mood even better than when he was aflame with an internal fire of his own creation, when he was almost wildly vivid with life.

  26. Crozier turned rather impatiently, for his face was aflame with some exciting reflection.

  27. Prudence when she read this letter, and bit her lip in vexation, her face aflame at the thought that she had taken the irrevocable step, and brought very close the moment for the great decision of her life.

  28. Babar's imagination was aflame in an instant.

  29. It was so delicate and dangerous a duty, since Worden was compelled to make his way through the South which was aflame with secession excitement, that he committed the dispatches to memory and then destroyed them.

  30. Leaping to his feet, his face aflame with rage, he went at the Green Mountain Boy, who coolly awaited his attack, and they proceeded instantly to mix it up for some fifteen minutes in the most lively manner conceivable.

  31. As with a stroke of lightning some heavenly fire set his heart aflame with yearning.

  32. He got in with her now and they talked of Ruth as they jogged through the country which he now noticed was aflame with the red and gold of October.

  33. She was fairly aflame with feeling about it.

  34. Then his face was aflame with angry blood.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aflame" 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; blazing; burning; drunk; excited; fiery; fire; flagrant; flaming; flaring; flashing; flashy; flickering; fuming; glowing; ignited; incandescent; inflamed; kindled; lighted; live; living; meteoric; reeking; scintillating; smoking; smoldering; unextinguished