How to Use inferno in a Sentence

inferno

noun
  • By the time help arrived, the fire had grown to a raging inferno.
  • The two girls were killed in the inferno, along with their uncle.
    — Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2021
  • Then there were a bunch of vibrant green trees — spared from the inferno.
    — Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2024
  • The inferno could be seen for miles as flames raced across tinder-dry grass and brush.
    — Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 24 Oct. 2019
  • The inferno reduced a large swath of the town to rubble and ash.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2022
  • But the fire spread so quickly and burned over the cameras in a fiery inferno.
    — Kellie Hwang, SFChronicle.com, 19 Aug. 2020
  • And in the midst of fleeing the inferno, Izzy ran away from them.
    — Author: Samantha Schmidt, Alaska Dispatch News, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Things would look fine, then all at once, trees would die, infernos would rage, insects would throng.
    — Madeline Ostrander, Smithsonian, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Officials have yet to say what may have caused the inferno.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 6 Nov. 2025
  • At least three fires have now merged, forming the one massive inferno.
    — Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2020
  • The car slowed, then stopped, the driver frozen before the inferno.
    — Diana Whitney, Longreads, 19 June 2017
  • Two teenagers were forced to escape the inferno by climbing a pipe down an outer wall.
    — Wilfred Chan, Curbed, 9 July 2022
  • Those who died in the inferno were sleeping below deck and could not escape the flames.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2019
  • His partner also appeared to help pull the man away from the inferno.
    — Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2025
  • The inferno blocked the escape route of those bedded down on the bottom deck.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The wind blows down a power line, or lightning strikes dry grass, and an inferno ensues.
    — Elizabeth Weil, ProPublica, 28 Aug. 2020
  • With cell service and power out, many people were left in the dark — in the path of an inferno.
    — Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 6 Feb. 2024
  • The inferno was moving so fast, the governor said, that some fire trucks were caught in its path.
    — Mike Baker, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2023
  • An inferno was approaching from the south as the owner and others fled for their lives.
    — Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 31 July 2024
  • Bass was in Ghana when the deadly inferno erupted.
    — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2026
  • The entire front end of the drop-top was destroyed in the ensuing inferno.
    — Fox News, 1 May 2018
  • Huge stocks of carbon that had been sequestered in the wetlands over thousands of years were lost in the inferno.
    — Ian Willms, National Geographic, 26 Apr. 2019
  • Our bombs turned the city into a burning inferno and killed countless civilians.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 May 2026
  • As the buildings in the town caught fire, the theater filled with the roaring, crackling sounds of an inferno.
    — Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Jan. 2022
  • To win, the Fritzlers will have to show in court that their company was not to blame for the inferno.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Jonathan Rinderknecht has been charged with setting the fire that grew into the massive inferno.
    — Michelle Edgar, Daily News, 24 Jan. 2026
  • The young man’s mother got out, but her son, Tim Hurley, died in the inferno.
    — Diane Bell Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2021
  • Even dramas depicting the city as an inferno of crime and decay added to its legend.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
  • At least one witness saw Romero trying to douse the house fire — an inferno at that point — with a garden hose.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Twice in the last 10 days, though, Murphy has poured gas on what’s already an inferno.
    — Rob Reischel, Forbes, 15 June 2021

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