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Example sentences for: conflagration

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The charred remains at Knossós and ash at Zákros suggest a great conflagration.
Tripp is not just like you, but she is just like Eris, a minor goddess who helped spark a huge conflagration.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Dec. 31--The new decade arrived well before dawn here today at Peterson Air Force Base, but there was more relief than celebration as the world's 24 time zones began passing from the 20th century without nuclear conflagration.
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.