(a.) Consisting of, containing, or resembling, fire; as, the fiery gulf of Etna; a fiery appearance.
(a.) Vehement; ardent; very active; impetuous.
(a.) Passionate; easily provoked; irritable.
(a.) Unrestrained; fierce; mettlesome; spirited.
(a.) heated by fire, or as if by fire; burning hot; parched; feverish.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fiery energy she radiated on stage and her motormouth, ragga-influenced raps brought her to the attention of So Solid Crew, who invited her to collaborate.
(2) Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), a charitable organisation seen as a front for LeT, operates openly in the country and its leaders frequently appear on television delivering fiery speeches against India.
(3) The oral lesion is a fiery red, flat or micropapillary-appearing mucosa most frequently involving the gingiva and hard palate.
(4) Remarkably, few of the avid conference organizers, and few of their fiery orators, ever stop to think just what resource flow has actually been constricting.
(5) | Howard W French Read more In the South China Sea, China has, by massive dredging operations, turned submerged reefs with names out of the novels of Joseph Conrad – Mischief Reef, Fiery Cross Reef – into artificial islands, and is completing a 3,000m runway on Fiery Cross.
(6) Inler also has a fiery side and it is a surprise to learn that it has been curbed, rather than forged, in a Neapolitan boxing ring.
(7) Plans to ramp up the US military presence in the area would probably involve flying over and sailing close to artificial islands that were only reefs before the latest building project, and China last week issued multiple warnings to a US plane flying above Fiery Cross reef, where China has built an early-warning radar station and airstrip.
(8) The darting speck of fiery orange had gone, perhaps already on his way to another continent.
(9) Notwithstanding the fiery rhetoric of the odd union leader , the movement's mainstream is painfully aware of its shrivelled size, and it lacks the cocksure confidence of those distant days when it thought it could count on full employment.
(10) Unscom had a stormy relationship with Iraq and was headed by a fiery individual, the Australian diplomat Richard Butler, and a former US marine, Scott Ritter.
(11) Richard Corliss of Time magazine called her performance one of the top 10 of the year; Roger Ebert said it made her a star; John Griffiths from Us Weekly praised her "husky voice and fiery hair" and likened her to Lindsay Lohan.
(12) Two news helicopters collided in midair in Phoenix in 2007 as the aircraft covered a police chase, sending fiery wreckage plummeting onto a park.
(13) The reaction to Osborne's announcement ranged from lukewarm praise to fiery opposition.
(14) "It was shortly after the big four-oh, in a car park somewhere in the arid wastes of suburbia, when I was Tasered with the realisation that I would never again have to go on a crash diet" is how South African novelist Lauren Liebenberg opens her fiery burst of autobiography in the new book.
(15) When the fiery Carla turns up unexpectedly from his past, Robert must choose between convention and the fraught path of love and freedom.
(16) Under the fiery title, "Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior" , Yale law professor Amy Chua set out a manifesto for motherhood in proudly recounting her iron-fisted reign over her two young daughters, which included the prohibition of sleepovers and the insistence that they attain no grade lower than an A.
(17) (You can turn on the Food Network, the Discovery Channel, CNN or – by now – the History Channel and see a show ranking the world's best sandwiches, all without leaving the continental United States, followed by a nauseating closeup of Guy Fieri's Baconated Hamapeño Chipotle-Chicken Despair Ziggurat.)
(18) Tadic was denied by a solid Koubek save after a neat exchange with Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg in the 52nd minute and the best the visitors could muster was a fiery mid-range effort from Lafata that Fraser Forster got a strong hand behind to force away.
(19) Sporting the traditional robes and cap of the south-west Yoruba people – who have appeared largely in favour of the opposition – Jonathan opened with an unusually fiery speech that addressed a growing Islamist uprising in the north-east and, more pressingly for the south, a slump in oil prices and the value of the national currency.
(20) He had a fiery temperament, which you may not know if you haven't played for him, if you've only watched him on TV.
Spitfire
Definition:
(n.) A violent, irascible, or passionate person.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The Spitfire represents the British fighting spirit against Continental totalitarianism.
(2) Spitfires and Hurricanes dive across our screens in the Indian summer of 1940, and while the Few have acquired a golden aura burnished by Churchill's spine-tingling rhetoric, there is another narrative.
(3) Spitfires and Hurricanes flew over Buckingham Palace on Friday as the Queen, Duke of Edinburgh and Duke of Cambridge looked on.
(4) Tilly Shilling was an engineer who located and fixed a carburettor problem which caused Spitfire engines to stall in mid-air combat, and in so doing quite possibly turned the tide of the second world war.
(5) Squadron Leader Duncan Mason, from RAF Coningsby, who led the flypast in a Spitfire, said: “For us, taking part today was an incredible honour.
(6) Friends and family call him Joe, and he also seems fond of Joseph, which goes nicely with the retro-Brilliantine look currently enjoying a minor vogue among Premier League footballers – you can imagine Barton and Scott Parker, for example, kissing their sweethearts goodbye before jumping into their Spitfires and Hurricanes, though the quiffed hairdo might owe just as much to Barton's love of Morrissey.
(7) When you're actually fighting a war the quality that is really admirable is courage, and both she and her fighter pilot brother would have laughed at the idea that she did more to ensure victory in her cold cramped hut than he did in the cockpit of his Spitfire.
(8) And in one wartime picture, Cottage To Let (1941), he even characterised a Nazi fifth columnist, albeit in the guise of a dashing Spitfire pilot.
(9) Once the show finally began, Jay and Bey charged through their repertoire at a spitfire pace.
(10) In the minds of Europhobes and Spitfire reactionaries everywhere, we are still fighting the long great war.
(11) Spitfire Scramble Run the night shift of this 24-hour relay.
(12) He was commissioned as a pilot in 1944, and flew Spitfires with No 5 Squadron in India in 1946 before transferring to Germany with No 26 Squadron in 1947.
(13) A statement on the BNP website accused the former army chiefs of "breaking all military protocol" by voicing anger at the BNP's use of images of Churchill and Spitfires.
(14) The 200-year story of Sheffield Forgemasters is the story of British manufacturing: the place where they invented stainless steel, a half-mile long hall where crankshafts were made for Spitfire fighters, before the usual postwar mess of nationalisation, privatisation, strife, foreign sale and bankruptcy.
(15) The Airbourne International Airshow in Eastbourne ( eastbourneairshow.com, 15–18 Aug, free) will feature four displays from the Red Arrows, plus parachute teams, wing-walkers and the chance to see classic fighter planes, such as the Spitfire, being put through their paces.
(16) In fact he did, sort of, only on a smaller scale in his Bermondsey studio, heating up a model Spitfire on the end of a rod and plunging it at speed through an industrial vat of margarine, before casting its greasy flight path in plaster.
(17) Labour MP challenges Corbyn with unofficial Trident review Read more Pro-Trident Labour MPs were particularly exercised by her suggestion that the technology of Trident’s replacement deterrent would be as out of date as having Spitfire planes patrolling the skies within a few decades.
(18) He crashed a Hurricane in north Africa, receiving burns to his face and losing his eye, but returned to action in a Spitfire with 237 (Rhodesia) Squadron.
(19) Griffin reacted after former army chiefs, including General Sir Mike Jackson and General Sir Richard Dannatt, attacked the far-right's use of images such as Spitfire planes and Winston Churchill in campaign material for the European elections.
(20) But the war was won as much by the endurance and courage of everyone who was not a genius, and it's a great deal harder to emulate that than to imagine ourselves making breakthroughs of astonishing brilliance or dazzling at the controls of a Spitfire.