aflame

adjective or adverb

: afire

Examples of aflame in a Sentence

the kindling in the wood stove was aflame as soon as I held a match to it
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By the time the Globes winners woke up on January 7, the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of west Los Angeles was aflame, and as the Eaton fire in Pasadena grew the following day, the two blazes, bolstered by the Santa Ana winds, turned the town scared and smoky, and claimed five lives. Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 8 Jan. 2025 Others were thrown down and expired slowly, gasping or twisting or rolling in pain, sometimes with uniforms aflame, while observation drones collected footage of their agonies. C.j. Chivers Robert Fass Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024 From an opening scene on the high seas as a French merchant ship is aflame to a stag hunt on an aristocratic estate to a pistol duel at dawn, the writer-directors capture the scope and grandeur of Dumas’ story. Scott Phillips, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024 Police said one officer, visible in footage near the woman aflame, was trying to control the crime scene as other officers tried to get fire extinguishers and Metropolitan Transit Authority workers. Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for aflame 

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of aflame was in the 15th century

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“Aflame.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aflame. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.

Kids Definition

aflame

adjective or adverb
: afire

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