Flaming

//ˈfleɪmɪŋ//

"Flaming" in a Sentence (21 examples)

The sun is a flaming ball.

First from a flint a spark Achates drew, / and lit the leaves and dry wood heaped with care / and set the fuel flaming, as he blew.

As when a snake, that through the winter's cold / lay swoln and hidden in the ground from sight, / gorged with rank herbs, forth issues to the light, / and sleek with shining youth and newly drest, / wreathing its slippery volumes, towers upright / and, glorying, to the sunbeam rears its breast, / and darts a three-forked tongue, and points a flaming crest.

With him, Achilles' charioteer and squire, / Automedon, huge Periphas and all / the Scyrian youth rush up, and flaming fire / hurl to the roof, and thunder at the wall.

And he cast out Adam: and placed before the paradise of pleasure Cherubim, and a flaming sword, turning every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

The juggler tossed a flaming baton to his partner.

Flaming heck!

Flaming hell!

On his flaming wok, a chef in a Bangkok hotel is adding an unusual ingredient to several dishes that will be set out on the buffet.

Mom, are you listening to again what those flaming politicians are lying?

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The flaming debris kept the firefighter well back, and the sparks threatened the neighborhood.

On Christmas Day, the pudding was served piping hot, with flaming brandy on top.

In the evening she reveled in the flaming sunsets, with their spectacular orange glows that seemed to set the whole world on fire.

Edward was twelve when he had seen his first painting by Titian of a woman with flowing red locks. Since that day, he had always wanted to find a model he could paint who possessed the flaming hair that was Titian's trademark.

The sun had not yet risen, but the splendour in the East, lighting the sky with wondrous colourings of gold and crimson and green, announced the speedy coming of that god which many of the inhabitants of Baalbek still worshipped. The temples and palaces of the city took their tints from the flaming sky, and Haziddin, the ambassador, thought he had never seen anything so beautiful, notwithstanding the eulogy Mahomet himself had pronounced upon his own metropolis of Damascus.

To call him a flaming homosexual would be an understatement, but I think he acts that way just to see people react.

I wasted three hours in that flaming traffic jam!

I hate it with a flaming passion!

Before he had brought it into the study that morning, he had read in the journal a flaming account of "Festivities at Gaunt House," with the names of all the distinguished personages invited by the Marquis of Steyne to meet his Royal Highness.

The burning is done before the crop has come up, and usually two flamings are necessary to kill all weeds […]

You can expect a flaming if you post irrelevant spam to a newsgroup.

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