How to Use ablaze in a Sentence

ablaze

adjective or adverb

• With so many twists and turns, social media was ablaze with hot takes.
  — Patrick Crowley, Billboard, 15 Mar. 2018
• The internet was ablaze with frantic trawlers for spare flamethrowers.
  — Allison Barrie, Fox News, 23 Mar. 2018
• Photos show multiple trees ablaze as firefighters snuffed out the flames in less than an hour.
  — Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2018
• Panarin closed the calendar ablaze with 13 points over his final five games.
  — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• Social media was ablaze with political discussion and hopes of change.
  — Anna Pujol-Mazzini, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Mar. 2018
• At Roosevelt and Homan Avenue, buildings were already ablaze.
  — Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2018
• Authorities are blaming farmers who sometimes set areas ablaze to raze them for cattle ranching or to clear way for crops.
  — Russell Contreras, Axios, 5 Sep. 2024
• There’s a smug complacency with which these movies preach a message ostensibly meant to set the world passionately ablaze.
  — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• In 2006, unidentified perpetrators stacked five large tires filled with bottles of gasoline against the back of her home and set them ablaze.
  — Nicholas Kulish, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2018
• The ordeal started when Cypress firefighters responded to a call at a mobile home park in the early afternoon and found the unit ablaze, Capt.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 17 Mar. 2018
• The storm also produced intermittent pea-sized hail throughout the city; and on the far North Side, a house was completely destroyed after lightning struck and set it ablaze.
  — Fares Sabawi, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Mar. 2018
• Houses on both sides of the street were ablaze and no one else was around.
  — Nina Strochlic, National Geographic, 29 Sep. 2020
• Was this the same Christian Yelich that set the baseball world ablaze?
  — Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
• The home was ablaze when fire crews got to the scene, Battalion Chief Rusty Hahn said.
  — Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 15 Aug. 2022
• The skies were ablaze with disorder that night, the planets aghast in a quiver.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2022
• Lava set trees ablaze and threatened homes as gas spewed out of cracks in the ground.
  — Susannah Cullinane and Steve Almasy, CNN, 5 May 2018
• One never knows which ember will land in the right spot to set it all ablaze.
  — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2021
• This is augmented by the fact that the Middle East is ablaze.
  — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 12 Oct. 2023
• Dry grass around and beneath the car was also ablaze, and the 67-year-old driver was slumped over the wheel.
  — Ryan Blethen, The Seattle Times, 24 Sep. 2019
• And then, on the eighth and final night, when all the candles would be lit, the window scene would be ablaze with light.
  — Sandi Dolbee Writer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Dec. 2020
• At one point, the suspect threw the 57-year-old victim to the ground, poured gas on his foot and set it ablaze, Buttle said.
  — Lyndsay Winkley, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 June 2018
• Australia was ablaze, and the embers had barely cooled in the Amazon.
  — Mary Annaïse Heglar, Wired, 1 Apr. 2020
• Photos showed homes ablaze and clouds of smoke climbing high into the air.
  — Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2021
• Photos showed homes ablaze, and clouds of smoke climbing high into the air.
  — Arkansas Online, 1 Jan. 2022
• The fire department on Friday received a call that a fence near a home in the 500 block of Ridge Road was ablaze.
  — Daniel I. Dorfman, chicagotribune.com, 18 June 2018
• By the 12-minute mark, the salon was filled with smoke, and two minutes later, the entire back of the salon was ablaze.
  — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2023
• Auerbach’s plane was toward the tail end, and by then Tokyo was already ablaze.
  — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 21 Aug. 2019
• The first 911 call came in just after 3 a.m. that a house just outside the Dallas city limits was ablaze.
  — oregonlive, 20 Apr. 2020
• Ruidiaz set the place ablaze with excitement with his opening goal in the 45th minute.
  — Jayda Evans, Anchorage Daily News, 5 May 2022
• But the restaurant also has outlawed shorts and leggings — which has set an internet debate ablaze about what’s proper to wear to a restaurant, especially in the heat of summer.
  — Joanna Allhands, The Arizona Republic, 6 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024