How to Use conflagration in a Sentence

conflagration

noun
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  • The treaty is the latest attempt to resolve the ten-year conflagration.
  • The conflagration could be seen from New Haven, 70 miles away.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Flames shot from the roof and the church's stately front window glowed from the conflagration inside.
    — Fox News, 6 Dec. 2020
  • The conflagration destroyed a third of the city’s buildings.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Republic, 1 Dec. 2020
  • No fire jumper wants to be injured on the drop into a conflagration.
    — Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 July 2023
  • With the breeze and the conflagration, the nearby buildings and the high-risk rescues, this had all the makings of a large-scale disaster.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 6 May 2024
  • But during a free-speech conflagration, who should play the role of enforcer?
    — Vimal Patel, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Now, the conflagration of Mr. Putin’s war in Ukraine has threatened to strip them of everything again.
    — New York Times, 13 May 2022
  • But in many ways, 9/11 — and the epochal conflagration that followed — feels distant.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2020
  • Traces of the last global conflagration are never far off in Poland.
    — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2022
  • Land-use changes and the presence of non-native grasses also played a role in the conflagration.
    — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2023
  • An op-ed sparked a similar conflagration at the Times in June.
    — Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2020
  • Rarely a day passes when there is not a new threat of broader conflagration.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2023
  • Barry Allen, who had been the first hero to traverse the multiverse, died in the conflagration, the martyr of a changing era.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 15 Apr. 2022
  • At the start of the week the region was shocked by images of wineries burned in the conflagration along with homes and other properties.
    — Chase Difeliciantonio, SFChronicle.com, 3 Oct. 2020
  • The landscape was parched and the wind was fierce, and over the next few days the modest blaze exploded into a raging conflagration.
    — Emily Anthes, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
  • As a result, the rocket struck one edge of Just Read the Instructions and then raced across the drone ship before the fiery conflagration fell into the ocean.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The blaze Friday was the latest in a long list of deadly e-bike battery conflagrations that have plagued the city in the post-pandemic era.
    — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 24 Feb. 2024
  • An investigation found there had been 11 fires in the two and a half years leading up to the conflagration.
    — Allen G. Breed and Randy Herschaft, Anchorage Daily News, 11 July 2023
  • Still, on the night the conflagration blew up in Santa Cruz County, they were caught off guard, and some orders were issued too late.
    — Ingfei Chen, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Facebook’s satellite had been in place during the test—a time-saving measure—and was lost in the conflagration.
    — Steven Levy, WIRED, 14 July 2023
  • Too much fuel in too thick of forests leads to massive conflagrations.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Today, two questions are vital: Have the conflagrations of recent years pushed the blocs off their old path?
    — Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak, Fortune, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The fire of Auburn hoops is consuming all the oxygen from Athens to Atlanta, and devoured Crean’s big dreams in the conflagration.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 20 Jan. 2022
  • His greatest achievement was allowing the Cold War to end without a war or a worse conflagration that the world feared for decades.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Nothing would please Trump diehards more than the eruption of an all-out conflagration around Capitol Hill.
    — Arkansas Online, 4 Jan. 2021
  • Nuvamsa said the damage from the 2002 conflagration could have been much worse.
    — AZCentral.com, 26 June 2022
  • Their message to the Israeli government is clear: Eliminate the threat, even at the risk of a wider conflagration.
    — Neri Zilber, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Nov. 2023
  • This invasion set off a proxy war between the two nuclear powers—and the first conflagration of the Cold War.
    — Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 24 June 2020
  • Since then, Hezbollah has continued to design its attacks to stay below the threshold of a full-scale conflagration.
    — Dana Stroul, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2024

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