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Example sentences for "blaze"

Lexicographically close words:
blawn; blaws; blawsted; blay; blayed; blazed; blazer; blazers; blazes; blazeth
  1. So godlike Salvini, lest worshipers die, Averting the blaze of his withering eye, Tempers his terrors and shows to the pack Of feeble adorers the broad of his back.

  2. Suppose a pompous monument you raise Till on its peak the solar splendor blaze While yet about its base the night is black; But will it give your glory length of days?

  3. The sound of the surf became a roar in my ears, the sunshine an intolerable blaze of light; the blue above and around seemed suddenly beneath my feet as well.

  4. The Indian woman who held the torch that was to light the pile ran past us, whirling the wood around her head to make it blaze more fiercely.

  5. Locked together, we struggled backward and forward in what seemed a blaze of lights and a roaring as of mighty waters.

  6. Drawn in front of the blaze was an old rude chair, and in it sat a slight figure draped from head to foot in a black cloak.

  7. The square outside was a blaze of light, and resounded with shouts.

  8. And in the evening there were illuminations; not by formal request of the authorities, but spontaneous--the whole city was a blaze of light.

  9. Disturbance was chronic in certain localities, and a trifling quarrel might at any moment blaze into a murderous riot.

  10. The weight of his body when he first dropped caused him great pain; his "spirits" forced their way up to his head and seemed to go out at his eyes with a great blaze of light, and then all pain left him.

  11. And he fetched the bellows and made hell-fire blaze right under him.

  12. And when it was in full blaze she sat down close to it, and warmed herself by it, and said, "That shines bright for once in a way.

  13. It's a big blaze of some kind," answered Norman.

  14. It did not at all resemble a blaze of that kind.

  15. The blaze emphasized the darkness without and, realizing that their companions had no signal, the two boys split up a torch with the axe and carried it outside where, while they could keep it alight, it might serve as a beacon.

  16. There was danger that the out-rushing gas in the trench below might explode when it rose and came in contact with the roaring blaze above.

  17. In that preposterous world, to be remarkable is to be overlooked; and nothing less vivid than the white-hot blaze of a Shelley will bring with it even a distinguished martyrdom.

  18. Through an opposite door she could see another large kitchen lighted by the blaze of a wood fire, in which servants were apparently busy, and the voices of men and women could be heard.

  19. But before the blue fizzing blaze dims down, he drops the cigar to clutch at an object on the floor, whose sparkle has caught his eye.

  20. The two friends now busied themselves in preparing the evening meal: they found Louis and Hector had lighted up a charming blaze on the desolate hearth.

  21. Just then the wind blew the flame outward, and it caught the bear's thick coat, and he was all in a blaze in a moment.

  22. This day they did not wander far from the valley, but took the precaution, as evening drew on, to light a large fire, the blaze of which they thought would keep away any beast of prey.

  23. This had come out for him with a splendour that almost scared him even in their small corner of the room at Euston--almost scared him because it just seemed to blaze at him that waiting was the game of dupes.

  24. The storehouses at Navy Hall were, however, next set in a blaze which could not be overcome owing to their exposed situation, and they were totally destroyed.

  25. Then, while watching it blaze up, she suddenly exclaimed: "I was a fool to burn it before first seeing what was in it!

  26. There was a fire in the chimney, and it had now crumbled into great coals and embers, which lay glowing on the hearth, with a blaze flickering up now and then, and flinging a warm and ruddy light upon the walls.

  27. So the buried resentment in Pan's depths smoldered and burst into blaze again, and found fuel to burn it into hate.

  28. She appeared to be in a blaze of excitement, and at once he realized that all she had needed was his return, safe and sound.

  29. A swift unuttered blaze of joy that changed terror.

  30. There was nothing he could distinguish; everything was woven together, a mere blaze of wonderful, iridescent, blazing coloration.

  31. First, there was a white blaze that covered the whole disc; then the whiteness abruptly gave way to a flood of colour, which resolved itself into a perfect miniature of the tri-coloured cloverleaf in the sky ahead.

  32. As I was spreading them out in front of the blaze the key of the study dropped out of the waistcoat pocket on to the floor.

  33. Its own wild blaze served to show that it had been well aimed, and that the line had fallen across the wreck.

  34. Nick; them's the words o' the immortial Nelson, w'en he gave the signal to blaze away at Trafalgar.

  35. It must break across the middle soon, and collapse into the valley in a blaze of sparks.

  36. But her face was beautiful--none the less that it was sad and pale--in the glow as she brought the embers together to make life worth living to one or two more faggots, just for a little blaze before we went to bed.

  37. The sfiatatoio opened under the South Tower in the wall that is flush with the precipice, that one may see the sun blaze on all day summer and winter.

  38. There she sat enthroned, a prouder woman to-night, poor old Granny Kenneth, than many a duchess in a blaze of diamonds.

  39. Hal saw a blaze in the grate, and stood speechless.

  40. Why should we leave a land illuminated with the blaze of gospel light, for one enshrouded in pagan gloom?


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blaze" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.