How to Use inferno in a Sentence

inferno

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 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 their home in Cohasset was no match for an inferno’s fury.
  — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2024
• Three of the main factors that helped the inferno spread were dry land, lack of water, and hot temperatures.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 27 Aug. 2023
• Last week fire crews arrived at the site of a former Kmart on Northeast 122nd Avenue and found an inferno.
  — Tom Hallman, oregonlive, 23 July 2023
• The Klax Korps, the corrupt real-estate consortium that caused the inferno, now wants to buy the whole town back at a fire-sale price.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 21 Oct. 2022
• Funerals, Flames, and Tombstones If the hip are to be made to hop, infernos and eternal rest imagery are musts.
  — Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 5 June 2023
• Those who managed to escape the inferno were quickly mowed down.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Mar. 2021
• The raging inferno of just plain wrong. Grab an extinguisher and put it out.
  — Roy S. Johnson | [e-mail], al, 15 June 2021
• Our human world is built atop a parallel universe of their misery, an inferno from which most of us prefer to look away.
  — Marina Bolotnikova, Vox, 7 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Oct 2024