How to Use aflame in a Sentence

aflame

adjective or adverb
  • The rekindling of an old love affair was aflame.
    — Amy Lawrence, New York Times, 31 May 2026
  • Then the ships are all aflame and there’s fire everywhere.
    — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 22 Dec. 2025
  • All that remains of her is her TV set, aflame in her back yard.
    — Holden Seidlitz, The New Yorker, 10 June 2024
  • But new pressures appeared; now the culture wars were aflame.
    — TIME, 6 Oct. 2023
  • And how, pray tell, are those high-up chandeliers being set aflame?
    — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 5 July 2024
  • Instead of just the head of a fire running through trees, the whole perimeter may be aflame.
    — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 10 June 2018
  • Cars set on fire, government buildings set aflame.
    — ABC News, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Taylor then lights a cigarette, sets the tchotchkes aflame, and fury-walks out the door.
    — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The valley forest has a plethora of red maple trees aflame with color in the fall.
    — Dave Parfitt, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025
  • But recent auction prices have not exactly set the market for his work aflame.
    — Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 25 Feb. 2026
  • And didn’t the rioters provoke all of this by setting Paris aflame?
    — Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2025
  • In the United States, news of the event set right-wing social media aflame.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Ellis saves her, knocking the creature into the fire and setting him aflame.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
  • Across the street sat the charred shell of a car; a stray ember during the fires had set it aflame yet spared all the buildings around it.
    — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
  • In a world aflame with protest, Latin America stands out as a raging ten-alarm fire.
    — Moisés Naím, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2019
  • The series builds to these hefty questions, asked of the fake broken toilet and, later on, a car set aflame.
    — Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2023
  • What is there to be explained about a Texas State secondary that got doused in gasoline and lit aflame?
    — Caleb Yum, Austin American Statesman, 12 Oct. 2025
  • He was charged with arson, malicious destruction by means of a fire and timber set aflame.
    — ABC News, 25 June 2026
  • Soon the camera swerves to a television screen, where the Twin Towers are aflame.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 9 June 2022
  • In the kitchen, the chefs are seen pouring liquid nitrogen, tying dumplings and setting food aflame.
    — Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Governments have spoken out, protests have taken place, social media is aflame.
    — New York Times, 14 May 2021
  • Some even fashioned a flag that features a silhouette of a woman in front of a Capitol that is aflame.
    — Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2021
  • If that price wasn't enough to set your wallet aflame, there's also the matter of the Purosangue's inevitable gas-guzzler tax.
    — Andrew Krok, Car and Driver, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Police have used tear gas to disperse protests, and there were reports of looting and government buildings being set aflame.
    — Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Some even incorporate items from Adelman’s studio, like ceramics, as well as aflame glass oil lamps.
    — ELLE Decor, 18 May 2023
  • Things heated up in the kitchen quickly, with the chefs grabbing armfuls of ingredients and bottles of liquor to help set their dishes aflame.
    — Rachel Bernhard, Journal Sentinel, 1 May 2024
  • At a moment when the Middle East feels aflame, four people looking back at this planet from deep space didn’t see borders.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2026
  • When police exited their vehicle, some people began to jump on the hood of the car, and the cruiser was then hit by fireworks and set aflame.
    — Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 5 Dec. 2025
  • All of their horses were all evacuated preemptively — for fear that the dry hills nearby would soon be aflame — and the owners said none were hurt.
    — Malika Andrews, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2017
  • The fighting reached a climax when the British and their allies besieged a Pequot fort and set it aflame, hunting down those who fled.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, Harper's Magazine, 11 Oct. 2022

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