(adv. & a.) In a state of glowing excitement or ardent desire.
Example Sentences:
(1) He was burnt alive along with three customers as flames from the car set his carpet shop ablaze.
(2) Ten days after the consulate was stormed, thousands of Benghazi residents, some carrying American flags and placards mourning Stevens, stormed the base of Sharia, setting it ablaze.
(3) The epic struggle to keep Greece solvent and in the eurozone intensified on Saturday night amid signs of a looming crisis within the anti-austerity government that took Europe ablaze barely three months ago.
(4) In the western port of Izmir, protesters threw fire bombs at the offices of the ruling AK party and television footage showed part of the building ablaze.
(5) At the Green, where a local supermarket was set ablaze on Monday night, police kept the volunteers behind a cordon for fear of falling material from the building.
(6) Darkness has descended across Washington; but Frazier's hotel room is ablaze with light.
(7) Glasgow, June 2007 A Jeep loaded with petrol was driven into Glasgow airport and set ablaze.
(8) There are cars and buildings ablaze and the threat of violence.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tents set ablaze at North Dakota pipeline protest campsite “The thing about the No DAPL movement is that it’s everywhere,” Fielder said.
(10) By the end of the afternoon, dozens of cars were ablaze.
(11) Shell has scooped and dumped the oil inside pits and set them ablaze, incinerating local farmland .
(12) Rioters had smashed windows to loot a branch of Timpsons before setting it ablaze.
(13) 6.4.1994 Emmerdale ablaze When someone points to a box of fireworks and says, "They should be in the cellar", you know the whole place is about to go up in a dazzling racket of rockets.
(14) By the time the violence finally waned nearly three weeks later, 9,000 cars had been set ablaze in 250 towns and cities from Paris to Marseille, Toulouse to Rennes, Bordeaux to Strasbourg.
(15) The central question is what Modi as chief minister of Gujarat did or didn't do in the anti-Muslim violence that erupted in his state in February 2002, after a train carrying Hindu pilgrims was set ablaze and around 60 passengers died.
(16) The critic Kenneth Tynan was entranced, describing her as being "ablaze like a diamond in a mine".
(17) The 164ft (50 metre) ghost ship survived an initial barrage of 25mm shells that left it ablaze but still afloat.
(18) Dozens of militants arrived by motorised canoe at a fishing village on the shores of Lake Chad early on Friday morning, setting houses ablaze and attacking a police station.
(19) Limited-edition, museum-quality prints, some burned on the edges – they must have tried to set the house ablaze – some soiled with water and mud.
(20) In what appeared to be a well-organised plan, young protesters armed with petrol bombs and wearing masks, set buildings ablaze as police fired stun guns and rounds of teargas in retaliation.
Blaze
Definition:
(n.) A stream of gas or vapor emitting light and heat in the process of combustion; a bright flame.
(n.) Intense, direct light accompanied with heat; as, to seek shelter from the blaze of the sun.
(n.) A bursting out, or active display of any quality; an outburst; a brilliant display.
(n.) A white spot on the forehead of a horse.
(n.) A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.
(v. i.) To shine with flame; to glow with flame; as, the fire blazes.
(v. i.) To send forth or reflect glowing or brilliant light; to show a blaze.
(v. i.) To be resplendent.
(v. t.) To mark (a tree) by chipping off a piece of the bark.
(v. t.) To designate by blazing; to mark out, as by blazed trees; as, to blaze a line or path.
(v. i.) To make public far and wide; to make known; to render conspicuous.
(v. i.) To blazon.
Example Sentences:
(1) The visitors did have a chance to pull another back with three minutes remaining but Henry blazed a free-kick from within range on the left over the bar, summing up Wolves’ day out in the East Midlands.
(2) Some 10 fire engines remained on the scene after rushing there to extinguish the many blazes caused by the crash.
(3) It’s clear which way the ultra-right community around Ukip wishes to go: their timelines are full of praise for Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders , and blazing with imagery – both real and fake – of migrant riots in France and Sweden.
(4) Charlize Theron is set to star opposite Seth MacFarlane in the Ted creator's new comedy western A Million Ways to Die in the West, tipped as a homage to Mel Brooks's classic movie Blazing Saddles .
(5) He claimed the blaze was sparked by overheated cables setting light to stacks of toilet roll.
(6) In recent years, the violence has shifted away from the terraces into the streets of the capital as rival barras fight for control in a blaze of fire fights, drive-by shootings and mafia-style executions.
(7) PA also spoke to Austin Yuill, whoa chef at the art school, who said he believed the blaze started when a spark ignited foam in the building's basement.
(8) The adjoining galleries blaze with colour from enamel and gold, jewels and tapestries, stained glass and ceramics.
(9) The rest of the show finds Morpurgo – one of the stars of improv hit Austentatious – connecting these snippets to tell the tale of a female cop charged with solving the mystery of that blaze.
(10) Also, a wildfire in a rugged area near the Canadian border chased hundreds of people from their homes and burned 10 to 12 structures, and a blaze north-east of Colville scorched almost five square miles and forced evacuations at campgrounds in the area.
(11) California is doing well in terms of resources, despite a pair of huge blazes in the north.
(12) Forest ecologists say it is no coincidence the Rim fire exploded through areas which had seen few or no blazes in almost a century – an unnatural absence since California's mountain flora evolved to burn .
(13) Authorities were preparing for a "worst-case scenario" on Thursday as a blaze dubbed the "Springs fire" menaced the 101 freeway along Camarillo, a city in Ventura County, and raced towards the coast.
(14) The present review is first and foremost a tribute to Monroe Eaton and his colleagues for their trail-blazing discovery of a major cause of the atypical pneumonia syndrome and their steadfast vision of its importance.
(15) Blaze now has six employees, including Brooke, and would be in profit but for investment in future products, she says, one of which will be a new type of rear light, expanding on her vision to become the company that caters for the urban cyclist.
(16) When firefighters arrived to put out the blaze, someone cut through the hose with a knife.
(17) The former England striker broke away on a couple of occasions but he blazed the first chance over and the second wide.
(18) Simon Mignolet saved well from Mario Gasper and Jonathan Dos Santos blazed over when Cédric Bakambu’s run presented him with an excellent chance seconds before the opener.
(19) The worst blaze burned 30 homes in Carlsbad, north of San Diego, and triggered 11,500 evacuation notices.
(20) The city appeared, according to a report in the Daily Mirror, “like a battlefield with blazing houses, hordes of refugees, dead cattle and horses and the rattle of automatic weapons”.