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Flames in sentence

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Here it was, the middle of the night, she was standing outside in the pouring rain, under an umbrella, in her pajamas, barefoot, while her house was in flames.
But what you need to do is fan the flames of the revolution.
This sound, this smell, this sight all remind me of the campfires of my childhood, when anyone could become a storyteller in front of the dancing flames.
Three fires together, that's a lot of flames.
And I'd always felt this way, but it really came home to me, as it were, some years ago when I was climbing up the stairs in my parents' house in California, and I looked through the living room windows and I saw that we were encircled by 70-foot flames, one of those wildfires that regularly tear through the hills of California and many other such places.
You might not notice when the first few flames flicker out, but in the end, you're left sitting in darkness.
That day, the last bullet I shot hit the small orange light that sat on top of the target and to everyone's surprise, especially mine, the entire target burst into flames.
Because the sunshine kid was bright, with a warm personality, And inside he burned savagely Hurt by the words and curses of the shadowy folk who spoke holes in his soul and left cavities, And as his heart hardened, his spark darkened, Every time they called him names it cooled his flames, He thought they might like him if he kept his light dim But they were busy telling lightning she had terrible aim, He couldn’t quite get to grips with what they said, So he let his light be eclipsed by what they said, He fell into a Lone Star State like Texas, And felt like he’d been punched in his solar plexus.
Depict a big, wide-winged bird coming out of flames.
Emphasize those flames.
You could stare at the bright flames forever as they twist and flicker in endless incarnations.
The flames are obviously not solid, nor are they liquid.
Gravity causes this expansion and rising, which gives flames their characteristic taper.
Without gravity, molecules don’t separate by density and the flames have a totally different shape.
The hottest flames are white or blue.
For instance, any unreacted carbon atoms from the logs form little clumps of soot that rise into the flames and emit the yellow-orange light we associate with a campfire.
Besides colorful flames, fire also continues to generate heat as it burns.
This heat sustains the flames by keeping the fuel at or above ignition temperature.
Then, those twisting flames give a final hiss and disappear with a wisp of smoke as if they were never there at all.
She walks around our house in a cloak of flames that she made herself.
But every time we turn our attention to the news, it seems like one more country has gone up in flames.
So too we learn that our world is on fire, and it is our job to keep our hearts and our eyes open, and to recognize that it's our responsibility to help put out the flames.
Flames were pouring out, smoke was in the air and it looked like our wooden deck was about to catch fire.
So in the future, don't be afraid if your grill goes up in flames, because you never know when your idea might just catch fire.
How their walking sticks kept the flames alive?
Even the harsh judgment I hold in my heart against my brother or my sister, the open wound that was never cured, the offense that was never forgiven, the rancor that is only going to hurt me, are all instances of a fight that I carry within me, a flare deep in my heart that needs to be extinguished before it goes up in flames, leaving only ashes behind.
Many are in flames.
It will engage the flashlight, imbue it with color and disappear in a firework of flames.
So I open the window and I look out, and there's flames coming up the side of our hotel, and the hotel's on fire.
Fahrenheit 451 opens in a blissful blaze - and before long, we learn what’s going up in flames.
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