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conflagration

noun as in large fire

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Example Sentences

People treated at the program come from more than 100 countries, the newer refugees arriving from the most recent conflagration.

The fires that corporate America lit have now become a conflagration beyond its control.

A century ago, miscalculation was greatly to blame for thrusting Europe into a conflagration.

The Boston Marathon bombings reminded the world how quickly a celebration can turn into a conflagration.

The canisters, McMahon said, are to blame for the conflagration.

But at that insult Garnache's brain seemed to take fire, and his cautious resolutions were reduced to ashes by the conflagration.

In the Brazils a conflagration of this kind never extends very far, as the vegetation is too green and offers too much opposition.

The last fang belonging to chimney-pot Liz had perished in that great conflagration!

The conflagration of Rome, attributed by Nero to the Christians, which was the ostensible cause of the first persecution.

A large number of warehouses, also, many of which were filled with wine and spirits, shared in the conflagration.

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On this page you'll find 13 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to conflagration, such as: blaze, bonfire, inferno, wildfire, burning, and flaming.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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