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.
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
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inflame
v. become inflamed; get sore
v. catch fire
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.
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.
3 The wet wood which I had placed near the heat dried and itself became inflamed.
4 I had been awake the whole of the preceding night, my nerves were agitated, and my eyes inflamed by watching and misery.
5 It was violently swollen and inflamed, and I could scarcely endure to have it touched.
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.
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.
8 Milady listened with an attention that dilated her inflamed eyes.
9 He opened the door quickly; and Milady saw him appear, pale as usual, but with his eye inflamed and almost wild.
10 Sleeplessness inflamed my eyes; I had not dared to sleep a single instant.
11 It was wine that inflamed the Centaur Eurytion when he was staying with Peirithous among the Lapithae.
12 The other eye inflamed: he lost the sight of that also.
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.
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.
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.
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.