INFLAME in a Sentence

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27 example sentences for INFLAME, such as:

1. The nurse applied an emollient to the inflamed area.
2. Milady listened with an attention that dilated her inflamed eyes.
3. The wet wood which I had placed near the heat dried and itself became inflamed.
4. It's not clear whether the tactics will do anything other than inflame tensions.
5. When we antagonize, taunt or inflame our opponents, we motivate them to defeat us.

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 Meanings and Examples of INFLAME
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
inflame
 v.  set on fire; cause to burn, flame, or glow; kindle or intensify, as passion or appetite; excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat
Classic Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1  Resistance only served to inflame the murderers, who inflicted their furious blows long after their victims were beyond the power of their resentment.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
2  When I thought of him I gnashed my teeth, my eyes became inflamed, and I ardently wished to extinguish that life which I had so thoughtlessly bestowed.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
3  The wet wood which I had placed near the heat dried and itself became inflamed.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
4  I had been awake the whole of the preceding night, my nerves were agitated, and my eyes inflamed by watching and misery.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
5  It was violently swollen and inflamed, and I could scarcely endure to have it touched.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIII
6  With that he took his trembling hands, which were like the claws of a great bird, out of my hair; and put on a pair of spectacles, not at all ornamental to his inflamed eyes.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13. THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION
7  The fire had been smothered, and had smouldered for a time, but she saw all plainly now; it had but made headway, and now it had burst forth afresh, and had inflamed her whole being.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER
8  Milady listened with an attention that dilated her inflamed eyes.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 50 CHAT BETWEEN BROTHER AND SISTER
9  He opened the door quickly; and Milady saw him appear, pale as usual, but with his eye inflamed and almost wild.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 53 CAPTIVITY: THE SECOND DAY
10  Sleeplessness inflamed my eyes; I had not dared to sleep a single instant.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 56 CAPTIVITY: THE FIFTH DAY
11  It was wine that inflamed the Centaur Eurytion when he was staying with Peirithous among the Lapithae.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XXI
12  The other eye inflamed: he lost the sight of that also.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
13  This inflamed his rage; he repeated his threatenings, and turning to his companions, spoke with great vehemence in the Japanese language, as I suppose, often using the word Christianos.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER I.
14  and stood still in the doorway, so greatly was she impressed by the inflamed, and at the same time deathly face, with its dim eyes fastened upon her.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
15  Strands of her black hair lay round her inflamed and perspiring cheeks, her charming rosy mouth with its downy lip was open and she was smiling joyfully.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IX
Example Sentence:
1  When we antagonize, taunt or inflame our opponents, we motivate them to defeat us.
2  It's not clear whether the tactics will do anything other than inflame tensions.
3  Reducing the number of staff is certain to inflame the already angry medical profession.
4  The nurse applied an emollient to the inflamed area.
5  India is anxious to avoid inflaming tensions with China, which linger from a 1962 border war.