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Flame in sentence

274 examples of Flame in a sentence

This film has a great plot, where Mitchs friends are suspicious of a new flame and cant let him go through with the wedding that they have planned.
Dull, predictable lifeless story about a widower who gets a second chance at love with an old college flame after a chance meeting.
While the plastics used, say, to package our foods are usually nontoxic, most plastics are laden with chemicals, from softeners (which can act as endocrine disruptors) to flame retardants (which can be carcinogenic or toxic in higher concentrations).
That much was understood widely by entrenched Arab dictators, who saw to it that their intelligence and security corps extinguished any flame before it could spread.
As the political scientist Guillermo O’Donnell observed, democracy’s flame can also be extinguished gradually when dreams of justice and social progress fail to materialize.
To achieve this requires using a magnet to accelerate a plasma that is a big flame of deuterium and tritium nuclei.
ITER is not designed to produce electricity, but to study the stability of the flame in the magnet.
Since the fusion reactions produce alpha particles, which pollute the plasma, one has to insert a “divertor” inside the flame at 100 million degrees in order to clean it.
During this time of uncertainty, Europe must tend to that flame.
Europe’s main challenge today is to keep the European flame alive in Germany.
One of Kurdistan’s merits is to have kept alive the flame of internationalism in a benighted region.
We Cubans remain, in charge of keeping the flame alive.
But, along with the precious metals, e-waste also contains potent toxic chemicals such as lead, mercury, cadmium, and brominated flame retardants.
No one knows right now whether Trump will flame out or prove to have staying power, but one thing is clear: he is not the only one injecting strangeness into the nomination contest.
Like the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, the horrors fade, but the flame never dies.
One hopes that the example of FIFA will help to mark a path to redemption for the IOC, and that the Olympic Movement’s governing body embarks upon it before the flame of what is worthy and inspiring about the Games is snuffed out.
That means those who still yearn to see an Israeli state and a Palestinian state living side by side in peace must strive to keep the flame of hope alive – now more than ever.
The Rajapaksas have already used the Islamist bombings to fan the flame of Sinhalese nationalism.
When it comes to increasing national prosperity, research shows that innovators are responsible for lighting the match, while governments fan the flame.
And meanwhile at the foot of the bed, like a flame above a lamp, flickered in Mary Vlasevna's skilful hands the life of a human being who had never before existed: a human being who, with the same right and the same importance to himself, would live and would procreate others like himself.
Lowering his head and fighting against the wind which was tearing the plaids out of his hands, Levin had almost reached the Kolok and could see something gleaming white behind an oak, when suddenly everything burst into flame, the earth seemed on fire, and just overhead the vault of heaven seemed to crack.
The latter, with their hundreds of chimneys, planted obliquely, made lines of red flame; while the two towers, more to the left, burnt blue against the blank sky, like giant torches.
In single file they still went on without a word, by the tiny flame of the lamps.
The two men exchanged, a look, lighted up by one of those instinctive hatreds which suddenly flame up.
She laughed, she said there was a good deal of it to-day to make the flame of the lamps so blue.
Sometimes when the flame of the lamps grew paler and bluer than usual it attracted attention, and a miner would put his head against the seam to listen to the low noise of the gas, a noise of air-bubbles escaping from each crack.
An ecstasy raised him on his chair, a mystic flame darted from his pale eyes, and his delicate hands gripped the edge of the table almost to breaking.
There was nothing beautiful in her large round face, with its yellow complexion eaten by the coal; but her eyes shone with flame, a charm rose from her skin, a trembling of desire which made her rosy and young.
A flame came into Deneulin's eyes, and his fist, that of a man who liked strong government, was clenched, for fear of yielding to the temptation of seizing one of them by the neck.
Fires would flame; they would not leave standing one stone of the towns; they would return to the savage life of the woods, after the great rut, the great feast-day, when the poor in one night would emaciate the wives and empty the cellars of the rich.
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