(n.) A fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning.
Example Sentences:
(1) Is it hopelessly old fart-ish to hope exposure that to the horrors described by Buergenthal will remind all of us of the piffling nature of our next household conflagration about who gets to wear which pair of jeans, or whether homework on the weekend really constitutes a hardship – or even, somehow, temper the demand for new electronic equipment?
(2) The bonfire of red tape is a surprisingly modest conflagration, which the (mainly industry-funded) potato people will survive.
(3) The Russian president, Vladimir Putin , is expected to allow the issue on to the agenda for dinner, reflecting the reality that the fate of the world economy is inextricably intertwined with the risk of a Middle East conflagration.
(4) Points of contact invariably produce friction and friction generates heat and may lead to a conflagration,” declared South Africa's minister of the interior, Dr T E Tonges, in 1950, when he introduced the Group Areas Act , the law that enforced the division of cities into ethnically distinct areas.
(5) Flash fire victims are exceptions to the axiom that elevation of blood carboxyhemoglobin is a sine qua non for concluding that a decedent recovered from the scene of a conflagration was alive in the fire.
(6) Unlike others, he turned up to watch the conflagration and decided a life of internal exile was more interesting than flight.
(7) This has always been the Palestinian leadership’s approach and all the conflagrations must be understood in this context.
(8) Kinshasa now resembles a tinderbox, a spark away from conflagration.
(9) Companies and conflict The private sector is far from a silent bystander in these water-related conflagrations.
(10) Durban was Hedegaard's chance to raise a new phoenix from the ashes of the Copenhagen conflagration.
(11) It is possible that today's conflagrations mark the end of von Trier's relationship with a festival that hitherto regarded him with a fond indulgence.
(12) A menu entitled tacos prehispánicos offers a far-reaching conflagration of edible insects, such as sautéed grasshoppers, gusanos de maguey (grubs found in agave plants), and crispy fried black beetles called cocopaches .
(13) Being bracketed with three other countries in southern Europe has helped pull the Spanish into a financial-market conflagration that has lasted the best part of 18 months, and forced the policy-making elite into a series of U-turns and crises.
(14) According to the Independent, the ads were meant to return after the cruise company was satisfied that there would be no further boat-related conflagrations.
(15) Most Australians get some training in basic fire strategy – the now well-known " stay and defend or go early " strategy, which recognises that bushfires move faster than people or cars, but will often leap across the ground, making digging in your best chance of survival – but these are intended for "milder" conflagrations.
(16) Turkey has called on the US, Britain and other leading countries to take immediate action to intervene in Syria to prevent a looming humanitarian "disaster" that it says threatens the lives of millions of internally displaced people and refugees as winter approaches and could soon ignite a region-wide conflagration.
(17) However dishonestly the story of 1939 has been abused to justify new wars against quite different kinds of enemies, the responsibility for the greatest conflagration in human history has always been laid at the door of Hitler and his genocidal Nazi regime.
(18) Knowing the firestarters and the firemen would be essential to landing the big stories on the mother of all financial conflagrations.
(19) Multiple injuries were the most common cause of death although conflagration injuries (e.g., smoke inhalation, burns) were frequent.
(20) The period of intensified metabolic processes, "conflagration of metabolism".
Firestorm
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) In an interview with Fox News’s Megyn Kelly on Monday night, Jeb Bush was asked: “Knowing what we know now, would you have authorized the invasion?” The former Florida governor replied: “I would have, and so would have Hillary Clinton, just to remind everybody, and so would have almost everybody that was confronted with the intelligence they got.” The answer provoked an immediate firestorm.
(2) That crowded, baroque city, with its high tally of wooden buildings, was incinerated on the night of 13 February 1944 in a man-made firestorm that destroyed 90% of the city centre.
(3) Even after yesterday's dreadful GDP figures , a year on from the financial firestorm, it has become apparent that we are not about to suffer a full rerun of America's Great Depression.
(4) November 6, 2012 And then there was that little matter earlier this month in which Trump sparked a firestorm by claiming on Twitter, without producing any evidence, that President Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower.
(5) Keys said he was shocked by the "firestorm" caused by his comments but said he understood if they led to him also losing his job.
(6) What began in 2006 as a mission to expand its reach soon attracted a firestorm of criticism and concern over Google's dedication to freedom of information.
(7) In the wake of immediate firestorms and ensuing PR disasters, Keller, Gopman and Shih all apologized for their remarks.
(8) Maybe violent impulses now get pushed elsewhere, as evidenced by the apparent epidemic of teenage online bullying and the great firestorms of misanthropy that roar across Twitter.
(9) As well as its coverage of the Snowden revelations, the judges were impressed by theguardian.com's innovative reporting of the Holmes family's desperate attempts to escape the Tasmanian firestorm, among other projects.
(10) Clegg’s “economic firestorm” is the latest piece of myth weaving.
(11) It was the latest in a series of humiliations for Donald Sterling since the celebrity news site TMZ.com in April posted audio of him denigrating black people , igniting a firestorm of condemnation led by President Barack Obama.
(12) Sterling, who ignited a firestorm after being caught on tape making derogatory remarks about black people, reportedly stated a desire to keep hold of the Clippers, raising the spectre of a protracted, bruising tussle for a franchise estimated to be worth more than $1bn.
(13) He set off a firestorm recently with a new routine that delves into the sexual abuse allegations against comedy icon Bill Cosby .
(14) A group of Beyoncé’s backup dancers created a political firestorm when they were photographed at the Super Bowl last weekend, dressed in Black Panther-inspired costumes, holding a sign that read “Justice 4 Mario Woods”.
(15) The version of illegal warrantless wiretapping that the New York Times revealed in 2005, which sparked a firestorm of liberal criticism and widespread accusations of illegal conduct, was the program that Comey was totally fine with and signed off on.
(16) Secretive is not the word – I think she’s just more private, less expressive, than he is.” For Dumas, the current firestorm over Clinton’s exclusive use of a private email address for all her official business as secretary of state between 2009 and 2013 was utterly in character.
(17) In patients with firestorm fibrosis, aggressive treatment with constant suction drainage and methylprednisolone irrigation warrants further study.
(18) Localism is his biggest idea, an approach he has long been keen on but one which last year looked unequal to the task of rebuilding an economy engulfed in a global firestorm.
(19) Wooden homes had been burnt to the ground by firestorms; the city’s rivers were filled with the corpses of people desperately seeking water before they died.
(20) The losses at JP Morgan's London offices have caused a political firestorm in the US and led to calls for tighter regulation of Wall Street banks.