How to Use inferno in a Sentence

inferno

noun
  • By the time help arrived, the fire had grown to a raging inferno.
  • And in the midst of fleeing the inferno, Izzy ran away from them.
    — Author: Samantha Schmidt, Alaska Dispatch News, 16 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • This is said to be the worst bushfire in the area since the Ash Wednesday inferno in 1983.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2015
  • Even the ancient 150-year-old Banyan tree, a guardian of my youth, was marred by the inferno.
    — Time, 17 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • Then there were a bunch of vibrant green trees — spared from the inferno.
    — Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2024
  • But the fire spread so quickly and burned over the cameras in a fiery inferno.
    — Kellie Hwang, SFChronicle.com, 19 Aug. 2020
  • The car slowed, then stopped, the driver frozen before the inferno.
    — Diana Whitney, Longreads, 19 June 2017
  • The inferno could be seen for miles as flames raced across tinder-dry grass and brush.
    — Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 24 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 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
  • Those who died in the inferno were sleeping below deck and could not escape the flames.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2019
  • The inferno the bombs created reduced an area of 15.8 square miles to ash.
    — Brad Lendon and Emiko Jozuka, CNN, 7 Mar. 2020
  • Sergeant Eshel and the others on duty died in the inferno.
    — Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
  • The entire front end of the drop-top was destroyed in the ensuing inferno.
    — Fox News, 1 May 2018
  • 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
  • Huge stocks of carbon that had been sequestered in the wetlands over thousands of years were lost in the inferno.
    — Ian Willms, National Geographic, 26 Apr. 2019
  • 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
  • Definitely make sure the kids are put to bed, because Dante’s Inferno doesn’t hold back on the gore or the T&A.
    — Gus Mastrapa, WIRED, 9 Feb. 2010
  • Things would look fine, then all at once, trees would die, infernos would rage, insects would throng.
    — Madeline Ostrander, Smithsonian, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Tractor crews and hand crews were constructing fire lines to contain the inferno, Pickens County said in an update on its website.
    — Minyvonne Burke, NBC news, 24 Mar. 2025

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