How to Use conflagration in a Sentence

conflagration

noun

• The treaty is the latest attempt to resolve the ten-year conflagration.
• Compta's goal is to limit losses with warnings that can help keep a small blaze from becoming a conflagration.
  — Brian K. Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 12 Aug. 2019
• Compta’s goal is to limit losses with warnings that can help keep a small blaze from becoming a conflagration.
  — Brian K. Sullivan, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2019
• Video of the resulting conflagration near Oktyabrsky seems to confirm the strike.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
• Every year, right about now, fires in the country start to tick up—but that doesn’t make the ongoing conflagration in the Amazon normal.
  — Daniel Wolfe, Quartz, 23 Aug. 2019
• None of the parties is believed to be seeking war, but the potential for miscalculation could lead to a regional conflagration.
  — Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2019
• This year has not been a particularly dry year, Chazdon said, so unusual drought does not explain why there have been so many conflagrations, although not all are large in size.
  — NBC News, 22 Aug. 2019
• But once the first case of mumps is identified, raising the issue of how to deal with the unvaccinated students, a full conflagration erupts that extends beyond the walls of the little library.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2019
• The conflagration could be seen from New Haven, 70 miles away.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2023
• But any attack on Iran could go from a show of force by the West, to all-out conflagration in moments.
  — Sam Kiley, CNN, 3 Oct. 2019
• 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
• The conflict has steadily ratcheted up to the brink of all-out war, raising fears of a region-wide conflagration.
  — Kareem Chehayeb, Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 25 Dec 2024