Example sentences for: conflagration

How can you use “conflagration” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Of course, the pair ends up in the middle of every conflagration.

  • I admire Stephen Hirschberg's mnemonic tricks [XVI, 3], but he has left out an important postscript to the Ogden Nash poem about the one- I lama and the two-l llama . When Nash gets to the three- l lllama and concludes there isn't any, he amends himself in a footnote: “The author's attention has been called to a type of conflagration known as the three-alarmer . Pooh.

  • Tripp is not just like you, but she is just like Eris, a minor goddess who helped spark a huge conflagration.

  • Balkan watchers say the killings will provoke the Albanians--90 percent of Kosovo's population--into armed revolt, sparking a conflagration that could involve the rest of Europe.

  • In the New Republic , Robert Boyers condemns John Updike for setting his sci-fi novel Toward the End of Time in the aftermath of a horrific conflagration.


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