(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.
Smouldering
Definition:
() of Smoulder
(a.) Being in a state of suppressed activity; quiet but not dead.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nine patients showed "smouldering retinitis" at a late stage.
(2) In 4 patients leukemia developed within 2-4 months from the diagnosis ('imminent leukemia'), in 13 patients leukemia or smouldering leukemia developed between 4 and 25 months after the diagnosis ('true preleukemia').
(3) Here's a photo of the remains of the flag, smouldering away.
(4) He says they dragged him about 40 metres towards a fire that was still smouldering on the street, the remains of a protesters' barricade.
(5) When Barack Obama was photographed with a very weak beer in hand at a Washington Wizards game, the phone-in lines smouldered with anger.
(6) Immune deficiency probably permits continuation of the infections, with smouldering polyclonal B-cell proliferation proceeding.
(7) Priapic gadabouts in peephole codpieces hey-nonny-no-ing past plates of glazed pig as smouldering flibbertigibbets pout and motion to their jugs.
(8) In the capital, burnt-out buildings and vehicles were still smouldering in the area around the grand bazaar, where violence broke out.
(9) While ATLL usually pursues an acute or subacute (prototypic) course, patients are also seen with 'chronic' or 'smouldering' disease.
(10) "We stand against the cuts, in solidarity with all the poor, elderly, disabled and working people affected," read the message, quickly circulated among a thousand rioting students in the forecourt below, who had run out of windows to smash and gathered around smouldering fires.
(11) Indoors and outdoors human baits seated at a distance of about 3 m from smouldering esbiothrin ropes experienced no bite at all from An.
(12) Intravenous injection of methylated bovine serum albumin (mBSA) in mice with unilateral, chronic, mBSA-induced arthritis has been shown to cause a flare of smouldering arthritis without affecting the contralateral, noninflamed knee joint.
(13) In Hong Kong, Liu’s death has rekindled an anti-mainland sentiment that has been smouldering for years.
(14) Justin Bieber does age-appropriate smouldering (and monkey shots ) for the tweens and Tyra Banks "smizes".
(15) Mortality in the emergency patients was 45.5% due to the bad general condition after longstanding ileus or due to continuing smouldering fecal peritonitis after perforation.
(16) Our positions is the migrants have to be informed of their rights and it’s their decision if they want to move.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Remains of shelters that had housed migrants smoulder in the dawn sun following the clearing of an area of the Jungle.
(17) And yet there she stands, serving that well-rehearsed smouldering look on the cover of Vogue’s September issue.
(18) Both start as genuine smouldering infections turning later into neoplasms.
(19) 12.52pm BST Caught in the heat of the Centre Court microscope , Sabine Lisicki begins to smoke and smoulder.
(20) We believe that bone marrow scintigraphy may be a useful technique in the early diagnosis and follow-up of multiple myeloma, particularly in the detection of unusual forms (i.e., "smouldering" myeloma), but it remains only an "additional" technique for bone imaging.