How to Use inferno in a Sentence

inferno

noun
Definition of infernonext
Synonyms for infernonext
  • By the time help arrived, the fire had grown to a raging inferno.
  • The home of Roger Derry, 80, and his son, Rodger, was spared by the inferno.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 21 Aug. 2022
  • The crash caused an inferno that could be seen for miles.
    — Dallas News, 23 Mar. 2022
  • On the lawn, a small blonde woman gazes up at the inferno.
    — Philippa Snow, The New Republic, 19 Mar. 2020
  • The inferno reduced a large swath of the town to rubble and ash.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2022
  • The two girls were killed in the inferno, along with their uncle.
    — Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2021
  • Even the ancient 150-year-old Banyan tree, a guardian of my youth, was marred by the inferno.
    — Time, 17 Aug. 2023
  • But the fire spread so quickly and burned over the cameras in a fiery inferno.
    — Kellie Hwang, SFChronicle.com, 19 Aug. 2020
  • The inferno blocked the escape route of those bedded down on the bottom deck.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 the bombs created reduced an area of 15.8 square miles to ash.
    — Brad Lendon and Emiko Jozuka, CNN, 7 Mar. 2020
  • Twice in the last 10 days, though, Murphy has poured gas on what’s already an inferno.
    — Rob Reischel, Forbes, 15 June 2021
  • 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 raged on the top floor; in the galleries, metal and wood were reduced to heat, light and ash; stone cracked and shattered.
    — New York Times, 4 Mar. 2021
  • In moments, with the help of the cotton balls and a match, the pile became a miniature inferno, warming the tips of my frozen fingers.
    — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Nov. 2022
  • This time, the decision to remove him from the game won’t add fuel to the Lakers’ inferno.
    — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Two teenagers were forced to escape the inferno by climbing a pipe down an outer wall.
    — Wilfred Chan, Curbed, 9 July 2022
  • 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
  • At least three fires have now merged, forming the one massive inferno.
    — Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2020
  • Granite boulders were charred and flaked from the inferno.
    — Brian Melley, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The basement of the Vernon church, built in 1919, was one of the only structures from before the inferno left intact.
    — Victor Luckerson, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2020
  • An inferno was approaching from the south as the owner and others fled for their lives.
    — Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 31 July 2024
  • The wind blows down a power line, or lightning strikes dry grass, and an inferno ensues.
    — Elizabeth Weil, ProPublica, 28 Aug. 2020
  • The water near the shore turns into an inferno of foam so aerated that Jet Skis choke on it.
    — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
  • Yet amid this inferno, in a kind of shared refugee status, these two struggle to nurture their last, best hope.
    — John Domini, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2022
  • The inferno is just 12% contained and so far one structure has been destroyed.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 1 Sep. 2022
  • But there aren’t any tidal waves or fiery infernos to signal armageddon.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Notre-Dame is slated to reopen on December 8, more than five years after the inferno ravaged its wooden spire and roof.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Sep. 2024

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