How to Use inferno in a Sentence

inferno

noun

• By the time help arrived, the fire had grown to a raging inferno.
• Those who died in the inferno were sleeping below deck and could not escape the flames.
  — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2019
• To win, the Fritzlers will have to show in court that their company was not to blame for the inferno.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2019
• The video shows the deadly inferno aboard the craft as the Coast Guard chopper arrived on the scene.
  — Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2019
• Still, the fact it was filed just three days after the deadly inferno Monday came as a surprise to legal observers.
  — NBC News, 6 Sep. 2019
• Five crew members managed to escape the inferno, but officials had little hope of finding anyone else alive.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2019
• The plane crashed into the building, creating an inferno with plumes of smoke and tremendous heat that quickly engulfed the building and the plane.
  — Dave Altimari, courant.com, 3 Oct. 2019
• Investigators are still trying to determine what caused the fire and what provided the fuel to turn it into a raging inferno.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2019
• The inferno also became an emblem of the rising cost of living in the Bay Area, which led so many people to seek shelter in a run-down building.
  — Tim Arango, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2019
• An inferno in the Amazon, two-thirds of which is in Brazil, threatens the rainforest ecosystem and also affects the entire globe.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 30 Aug. 2019
• The Brazilian Army is insufficient to combat this inferno.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 1 Sep. 2019
• The inferno also became an emblem of the rising cost of living in the Bay Area, which led so many people to seek shelter in a rundown building.
  — Tim Arango, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2019
• Fortunately, firefighters were gaining an edge over the infernos as temperatures dropped.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024
• 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 could be seen for miles as flames raced across tinder-dry grass and brush.
  — Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 24 Oct. 2019
• 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
• But there aren’t any tidal waves or fiery infernos to signal armageddon.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 6 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024