BLAZING in a Sentence

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On the other side, someone had painted many of the occupied buildings in blazing colors: pink, yellow, and minty green.

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 Meanings and Examples of BLAZING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
blazing
 a.  light up by or as by fire or flame; of tremendous intensity or fervor
Classic Sentence: (169 in 12 pages)
1  Her face was paper white and her narrow eyes blazing like emeralds.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  Every woman present was blazing with an emotion she did not feel.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  Ahead of them was a tunnel of fire where buildings were blazing on either side of the short, narrow street that led down to the railroad tracks.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
4  Someone had scattered the blazing logs in the open fireplace across the whole room and the tinder-dry pine floor was sucking in the flames and spewing them up like water.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
5  She raised eyes blazing with love and triumph to him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
6  His eyes were wide and blazing queerly and the tremor in his arms frightened her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
7  She passed into the small room, blazing with the afternoon sun, and sat down in the chair before the roll-topped desk.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
8  She turned and there stood India, white faced, her pale eyes blazing, and Archie, malevolent as a one-eyed parrot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
9  Bonnie came on with a rush, her crisp black curls jerking, her blue eyes blazing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
10  The door opened quickly and Mammy, shrinking back into the shadows of the hall, saw Rhett huge and dark against the blazing background of candles.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
11  As she crept into bed she was dazzled by Guy's blazing grin.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
12  By day, rattling about in many activities, she was able to ridicule her blazing nights of darkness.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
13  Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all India, and hang out their blazing banner from the sun; two thirds of this terraqueous globe are the Nantucketer's.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14. Nantucket.
14  Stood our old Sammy off to the northward, to get out of the blazing hot weather there on the Line.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 100. Leg and Arm.
15  That unblinkingly vivid Japanese sun seems the blazing focus of the glassy ocean's immeasurable burning-glass.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 118. The Quadrant.
Example Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  The sun was blazing down that afternoon.
2  Within minutes the whole building was blazing.
3  At the beginning blazing heart Long silence.
4  A huge fire was blazing in the fireplace.
5  On the other side, someone had painted many of the occupied buildings in blazing colors: pink, yellow, and minty green.
6  It is a blazing morning in the Permian basin, in west Texas, America's most productive oilfield; on the high plains a rig gnaws at rock more than 3,000 feet underground.
7  The layer of thick smoke now covering all of southern California, thousands of firefighters are still struggling to contain ten separate blazes.
8  Firefighters took action immediately to stop the blaze spreading.
9  The trial took place amid a blaze of publicity.
10  In the fall, the trees are a blaze of color.
11  The blaze spread to two adjacent buildings before firefighters were able to contain it.
12  Crowds of youths prevented the fire service from dealing with the blaze.
13  Their marriage took place amid a blaze of publicity.
14  It took the firemen nearly two hours to put the blaze out.
15  The blaze, which is not yet under control, has destroyed five thousand hectares of pine woodland and forced hundreds of villagers to leave their homes.