Inflame

//ɪnˈfleɪm//

"Inflame" in a Sentence (17 examples)

Hers was truly an artless, unsophisticated kiss, and yet it was well calculated to inflame a young man's heart.

The sight of all these things would have kindled love even among the aged and greatly did it inflame this young couple, already warmed by desire and longing for some other remedy, to love beyond a kiss and an embrace.

The ozone damaging the lungs of these young adults is an invisible gas, made of three oxygen atoms. When it's inhaled, ozone can irritate and inflame the sensitive internal tissues of the respiratory system. Nolen adds that ozone is usually accompanied by particle pollution such as diesel engine exhaust, which can cause further problems like heart attacks and strokes.

We should have made retreat / By light of the inflamed fleet.

Along the perimeter road the police car approached, headlamps inflaming the afternoon sunlight.

to inflame desire

more, it seems, inflamed with lust than rage

But, O inflame and fire our hearts.

The long-awaited verdict could inflame tension in the Southeast Asian country and have far-reaching implications in the politically divided kingdom.

It will inflame you; it will make you mad.

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To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.

Even though no one had known about the plan in advance, the paparazzi were waiting at the door as they left the nightclub. Lalvani told me, “Whether Harry’s Bar called them or she tipped them off, I don’t know.” (I think we do.) He realizes now that she was using him to inflame the true object of her affections, Hasnat Khan. The pictures of Lalvani and Diana that appeared the next day were the whole point.

to inflame the eyes by overwork

A friend exaggerates a man's virtues, an enemy inflames his crimes.

As you say, we passengers are to be taxed to pay all these fineries. I have often seen a good sideboard, or a marble chimney-piece, though not actually put in the bill, inflame a reckoning confoundedly.

You meditate upon the nerves, Inflame with hate. This ancient feud Is seldom won. […]

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