(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.
Gleaming
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gleam
Example Sentences:
(1) Archaeologists still argue about what it originally held, but visitors can now peer inside and see gleaming in the darkness a statue of Taharqa, loaned by Southampton museums.
(2) Every bit of her gleams with a sweet and shiny polish: which is probably a natural residue of her southern-belle charm, but is probably also partly attributable to the professional gloss the 20-year-old seems to have acquired with remarkable ease over her nascent two-year film career.
(3) Half a dozen bodyguards fan out from the trucks, and when they are in position, the Ace slowly climbs down from the driving seat of his gleaming landcruiser.
(4) Crumbling infrastructure will be replaced with new roads, bridges, tunnels, airports and railways gleaming across our beautiful land,” Trump said in his speech before Congress last Tuesday as he renewed a campaign promise, vowing to ask Congress for a $1tn infrastructure investment package financed through public and private capital.
(5) In this she differs from both Jeremy Corbyn and the gleaming-eyed Brexiteers, who share a belief in a route-map to the promised land.
(6) Now Murray and his team-mates – whoever they may be in the final, although his brother, Jamie, is nailed on after reaching two major doubles finals this year – will stare more history in the face, a chance to lift the gleaming goblet for the first time since Fred Perry helped win it in 1936, the year he abandoned British tennis for a life among the professionals in America.
(7) Downing Street has refused to release the guest list for this year's bash at the private Hurlingham members' club in Fulham, west London, but the gleaming Rolls-Royces and Jaguars streaming through the gates gave a hint of the wealthy passengers heading inside.
(8) The eyes gleamed with fury, like the glimpse of flame you have on opening the air vent in a wood stove.
(9) Of course the polarisation of old and young rests on a fallacy, if not a downright lie: that all young people possess perfect skin and gleaming hair, have non-stop sex, are bursting with energy and are never lonely.
(10) Tsipras of Athens – a gripping drama entering its final act | Larry Elliott Read more Perhaps you have an image of Deutschland as being a nation of highly skilled, highly rewarded workers in gleaming factories.
(11) At one point, one knelt in front of the gleaming coffin topped with white roses.
(12) At the meeting Burragubba played the didgeridoo, a performance he repeated outside the bank’s gleaming glass and steel headquarters in the City.
(13) In the flesh, though, he's more Bruce Forsyth than Bruce Willis: sweet-eyed, gleaming-teethed, with a keen ear for innuendo and a frankly mucky chuckle.
(14) Speaking in Donetsk's Victoria hotel – a gleaming multistorey edifice next to the city's state-of-the-art Donbass football stadium – Taruta says he's confident presidential elections due on 25 May will take place.
(15) We put stuff in there that was not really that good, but fortunately there were a couple of gleaming things that everyone remembers while they've forgotten the dross."
(16) For mid-century Americans, these gleaming marketplaces provided an almost utopian alternative to the urban commercial district, an artificial downtown with less crime and fewer vermin.
(17) Photograph: Supplied by LMK Earlier this year, the Post – whose traffic numbers reached a record 83.1m unique visitors in September 2016, a 40% year-on-year increase – moved from its former base to a gleaming, light-filled building on K Street, where reporters sit cheek-by-jowl with software engineers.
(18) This sort of rabid protectionism might feel depressingly inevitable in the gleaming, super-efficient first world of tournaments such as Germany 2006.
(19) Behind 300 metres of gleaming chain-link fence, men in high-vis jackets paced and measured, while one man stood and watched.
(20) The oil boom has led to an influx of luxury brands and gleaming Rolls Royce showrooms and upmarket shopping malls studded with Gucci, Lacoste and Prada stores line the streets of downtown Baku.