ABLAZE in a Sentence

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Every light in the hall was ablaze; every lamp turned as high as it could be without smoking the chimney or threatening explosion.

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 Meanings and Examples of ABLAZE
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ablaze
 a.  burning; radiant; bright; keenly excited ; resembling flame in brilliance or color
Classic Sentence:
1  Night after night, in these newly built homes, the windows were ablaze with gas light and the sound of music and dancing feet drifted out upon the air.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
2  Every light in the hall was ablaze; every lamp turned as high as it could be without smoking the chimney or threatening explosion.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In IX
3  Jurgis stood upright; trembling with passion, his hands clenched and his arms upraised, his whole soul ablaze with hatred and defiance.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
4  The smoke from the fire at times neglected the clay chimney and wreathed into the room, and this flimsy chimney of clay and sticks made endless threats to set ablaze the whole establishment.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
5  Your eyes have set man's heart ablaze.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
6  When I came back, I found him walking hurriedly up and down the room, his face all ablaze with excitement.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
7  At this the Lord omnipotent thrice thundered sharp from high heaven, and with his own hand shook out for a sign in the sky a cloud ablaze with luminous shafts of gold.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SEVENTH
8  Ausonia is ablaze, till then unstirred and immoveable.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SEVENTH
9  But when he saw this small newcomer his soul was all ablaze with bliss in a moment.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
10  When it was thoroughly ablaze Eustacia took it by the stem and waved it in the air above her head till it had burned itself out.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 7 The Night of the Sixth of November
11  The buildings in Carriage Row, across the river, in the Bazaar and the Povarskoy, as well as the barges on the Moskva River and the timber yards by the Dorogomilov Bridge, were all ablaze.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXXIII
Example Sentence:
1  The whole building was soon ablaze after the attack.
2  Within minutes the whole house was ablaze.
3  Her yard was ablaze with summer flowers.
4  Cars and buses were set ablaze during the riot.
5  Buildings were set ablaze in the black neighborhood; whites and blacks exchanged gunfire.
6  Truck after truck was set ablaze as the fire spread.
7  Shops, houses, and vehicles were set ablaze.
8  But when he saw this small new-comer his soul was all ablaze with bliss in a moment.