Words similar to flames

Example sentences for: flames

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The NYT is particularly strong on capturing the heat of the political debate, noting (along with the LAT ) that Chernomyrdin warned the parliament that "Indonesia reached the point where the country went up in flames.
The confirmation process is "nasty and brutish without being short," as Anthony Lake quipped after his nomination as CIA director went down in flames.
Flames , my notes say, about Tafero's execution.
So he set the house on fire intentionally to kill the child (in fact, he went in as if to rescue her, but instead dropped her closer to the flames!)
Reporters described the "outpouring" of emotion at the makeshift shrine, mentioning the address over and over again: 20 N. Moore St., 20 N. Moore St. The accompanying videotape used close-up shots and slow pans of the not-entirely cluttered stoop; the camera lingered over the flickering flames of memorial candles and the droplets of water clinging to the flower petals.