Words similar to flames

Example sentences for: flames

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

A slow wind generated from the unburned forest blows toward the fire, forcing the small flames to advance against, rather than with, the wind.
("The flames of hedonism, the flames of narcissism, the flames of self-centered morality are licking at the very foundation of society."
When flames erupted from Jesse Tafero during the execution I witnessed, prison officials blamed the fire on the water-filled sponge attached to his head that was placed there to conduct electricity from the electrode.
The confirmation process is "nasty and brutish without being short," as Anthony Lake quipped after his nomination as CIA director went down in flames.
Late at night, Wade drinks and holds forth on his suspicions in a low rasp over the phone to his younger brother, Rolfe (Willem Dafoe), a Boston academic who subtly feeds the flames of Wade's alienation.