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Example sentences for "flare"

Lexicographically close words:
flapped; flapper; flappers; flapping; flaps; flared; flares; flaring; flash; flashed
  1. A2S; b6] {1} burst into flame, flare up and burn brightly.

  2. Why do you flare up for such a tiny request?

  3. Ang pagtubagtubag sa anak mauy makasanting (makapasanting) sa dunggan sa ginikánan, Parents flare up when their children talk back to them.

  4. A; b28] flare up, burst forth or out as in a fire or explosion.

  5. B46] flare up in excitement or anger upon hearing s.

  6. Why did you flare up when you didn’t know the cause?

  7. Again the flare and roar to the night--Great flying sparks.

  8. As I stood looking at her, a vivid flare of light flashed through the window behind me, crimsoning the walls, playing over the ceiling with an infernal radiance.

  9. Presently he hurled the last burning cushion from the open door and leaped out into the train-yard, where red and green lamps glowed and the brilliant flare of bursting shells lighted the fog.

  10. She glanced about her with a flare of contempt, her smooth scarlet lip lifting in a sneer.

  11. She drew away from him with a flare of her natural resolution.

  12. The words seem as it were to flare the ancient places out before the eyes.

  13. There will be a flare soon, I tell you, and a bigger flare, perhaps, than the Great Fire ever made.

  14. And that night it woke a flare of exultant anger in her, because of the touch of patronage, as though the dead could always be safely pitied.

  15. They imagined that much bellows-work would be needed to make such green wood flare up into flame.

  16. Nothing was discernible for the moment but the torch-flare and the knot of eager, crowding men.

  17. Yet the four figures with the smoke and flare of the torches seemed vividly distinct to her, two of them stripped of cloaks and coats, so that their white shirts showed up like patches of snow on a distant mountain-side.

  18. A flare of links across the park, and the sound of laughter warned Hortense of a possible invasion.

  19. He took his stand in the center of the floor, the flare of a single torch speeding waves of light and shadow along his tall figure.

  20. When he had swung it sufficiently wide to admit the passage of his body, he was confronted by the flare of a single candle.

  21. The near vicinity of the building became brilliantly illuminated with the flare of many links, the iron pikes of which had been struck into the earth from the roadway to the entrance of the inn.

  22. The formal sentence of death only awaited, and then for him the fagots would flare and the flames crackle.

  23. German flare would tell us the position of the enemy's lines.

  24. The night was dark and it was rather a scramble, but the German flare lights would go up now and then and show us our course.

  25. Round my bedroom window grew a grape vine, and at night when the moon was shining, I could sit on my window-sill, listen to the sound of shells, watch the flare lights behind Armentieres and eat the grapes which hung down in large clusters.

  26. The flare lights all round gave a lurid background to the scene.

  27. But no flare flared, and no sniper sniped.

  28. Just before the flare went up I noticed a flash lamp; one of those things used to give signals with.

  29. A sharp blow caused the blue-fire to flare up and shed a light that fell strong as that of the full moon on the mingled grave, pale, stern, and terrified faces in the lifeboat.

  30. They made straight for the spot where the flare light had been seen.

  31. A weird light from a flare sent down by the enemy illuminated the street.

  32. A flare beyond a doubt, but such a flare as had never before been seen.

  33. There was the crimson flare of the Torch of Truth!

  34. He could see the envoy of the enemy approach on his horse, a white flag attached to his lance, could hear the flare of his trumpet summons, and his demand that the tower should be surrendered.

  35. He meant to have a proper flare while he was about it.

  36. Presently Reid put the hat on his head, came over to Mackenzie's fire, and squatted near it on his heels, although the sun was broiling hot and the flare of the ardent little blaze was scorching to his face.

  37. But that was because Joan did not know the world that lifted the lure of its flare beyond the rim of her horizon.

  38. Mackenzie started as if she had thrust him with a needle, felt his telltale blood flare red in his face, but grinned a little as he turned to her, meeting her eye to eye.

  39. Sally, who had been nervously untying her brown paper parcel, bent her head lower so that she should not see the flare of hate in those pale blue eyes which she knew would follow upon her own answer.

  40. He pushed me into a great chair Of russet leather, poked a flare Of tumbling flame, with the old long sword, Up the chimney; but said no word.

  41. A flare Of spotted green, and a snake had gone Into the bed where the snowdrops shone In green new-started, Their white bells parted.

  42. Now you must come, or I go there, Unless we are willing to live the flare Of a lighted instant and have it gone.

  43. By the red flare he could see the snow torn up and trampled, and from the way his partner breathed he knew a battle had been fought.

  44. He could see the green lantern of Von Schroeder, and, just below it, the red flare that marked his own team.

  45. Torchy caught his breath, but the excited flare in his eyes did not diminish.

  46. The lantern, flung wide from his grasp, struck one rail, smashed to pieces, and the lamp went out as it dropped with a flare into the deep gully beneath.

  47. They sang on in the darkness ever more loudly, till presently a single torch was lit at the end of the chamber, then another and another, though I could not see who lit them, and the room was a flare of light.

  48. Why was there no flare burning if there were any one or any vessel on the Goodwins?

  49. Why do you always flare up so when I mention his name?

  50. O, Dawn; but what will the world come to, if all the married people flare up at every little inharmony, and separate?

  51. But the flare died out without a sign, and the working party hurriedly renewed their task.

  52. Dusk had about given place to night, although in the west a broad flare of golden sky showed bright behind dark mountains.

  53. Following it came a huge flare of light, a sheet of flame in which a great cloud of smoke or dust shot up.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flare" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    addition; adjunct; alarm; amplification; backfire; bake; bang; barrage; beacon; beam; bell; blare; blast; blaze; blind; bloom; blowout; boil; boom; branch; broil; buoy; burn; burst; choke; cook; crescendo; daze; dazzle; definition; deflagration; deploy; deployment; detonation; discharge; disperse; dispersion; enlargement; eruption; expand; explosion; extend; extension; fan; fire; firecracker; fireworks; flambeau; flame; flare; flash; flicker; flush; foghorn; fry; gasp; ghost; glance; glare; gleam; glint; glow; grid; hiking; image; increase; kick; kindle; leer; light; link; luster; magnification; nod; noise; nudge; open; outburst; overgrow; overrun; pant; parch; picture; poke; radiate; rain; raising; ramify; report; roast; rocket; rolling; ruffle; scald; scintillation; scorch; seethe; semaphore; shading; shine; shoot; sign; signal; simmer; smolder; smother; snow; snowstorm; spark; splay; sprawl; spread; steam; stew; stifle; suffocate; sweat; toast; torch; touch; unfold; widen; widening; wigwag; wink