(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".
Inferno
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) On the other side of the school, events had taken on an Inferno-esque turn.
(2) One turns up for bums, rampant historical misrepresentation and a man in a wig roaring "spiritus sanctus" in a 13th-century CGI inferno.
(3) For assassination attempts, oil spills, pirates and a hellish inferno outside Waco, Texas – read on.
(4) You've written a book called The Moronic Inferno .")
(5) Craning forwards it was hard to know whether to feel thrilled at the sight of this white-hot inferno of British justice, or simply terribly depressed that it should have come to this for noble old Liverpool FC.
(6) But damage was widespread with more than 90 tents and dozens of prefabricated housing units going up in flames and vast numbers of refugees losing their meagre belongings to the inferno.
(7) He sees his job unequivocally as the defence of high culture: no negotiations with the moronic inferno.
(8) Her childhood, according to a British biographer, Emma Gilbey, "was a blistering inferno of racial hatred".
(9) Based loosely on Dante's Inferno, the novel once again features Harvard symbolist Robert Langdon – the protagonist from best-sellers The Da Vinci Code and The Lost Symbol – as it follows Sienna, his balding female companion, to the sprawling city of 13 million.
(10) They told him fires had raged around their homes for a week before they succumbed to the inferno.
(11) Officials at the RWE npower-owned site shut down the site quickly to stop the incident turning into an inferno.
(12) Now, with the compounding effects of days in the inferno, with little or no medication or fluids, they had deteriorated.
(13) All 16 Graves disease patients exhibited a pulsatile pattern we call "thyroid inferno."
(14) It was while working along the US-Mexican border, in an inferno of violence and addiction, that I came to see the wisdom of the proposed Colombian strategy.
(15) Yanukovych's concessions on Friday ended 48 hours of violence that had turned the centre of Kiev into an inferno of blazing barricades.
(16) "You have thrown your family into an inferno," it stated.
(17) Mariluce advised us not to take photographs as we looped through one alleyway in a part of the favela called Inferno Verde (Green Hell).
(18) Yet the Vatican's chief astronomer, Gabriel Funes, recently announced that Catholics should actually welcome aliens as our extraterrestrial brothers, quoting Dante's Inferno as his mission statement: "Where we came forth, and once more saw the stars."
(19) The impact of the thousands of bombs dropped on Guernica, of the aircraft machine guns strafing civilians trying to flee the inferno, is still felt to this day – by the elderly survivors, who will eagerly share their vivid memories, as well as by Guernica's youth, who are struggling to forge a future for their town out of its painful history.
(20) Rauschenberg created the 38 Inferno drawings as a modern counterpoint to Dante and Virgil's journey through hell, replacing Dante's characters with his own heroes, American figures like Pollock and de Kooning.