Sentence examples for a flame for from inspiring English sources

Milky stems, such as those of poppies, poinsettias, and large dahlias, are sealed by placing the tips in boiling water or over a flame for a few seconds.

It draws analysts like moths to a flame for a simple reason: it is, clearly, harmonically coherent from beginning to end, but tantalisingly difficult to explain.

You're rarely far from music in Timişoara, whether it's tootling out of the Facultate de Muzica on Piaţa Libertăţii or drifting from speakers over civic spaces (someone on the council holds a flame for Whitesnake, it would seem).

But Howard still harbors a flame for the girl that got away, Sibyl Borden (Ms. Foote), who is moving back to Harrison after roving South America in search of oil with her ne'er-do-well husband, Hugo, who dies of a heart attack shortly before the play begins.

My father used to spend summer days at our house on eastern Long Island making vats of lemony hummus and towers of Iraqi flatbread, asking my mother to wipe his brow as he twirled a shriveling eggplant over a flame for smoky baba ghanouj.

Why would Betty and Veronica still hold a flame for criminally bland Archie after 15 years?

Hold it over a candle flame or a lighter flame for a few seconds until it gets quite hot.

Don't hide stuff like meeting an old flame for a drink, a business trip, or even meeting a friend after work for dinner.

Return pan to a low flame for a minute, but remove before eggs become entirely dry.

In recent years, a very common shortcut (nearly 80% of modern kitchens do this) is to add soy sauce to the dish, and cook it over a gas flame for a much shorter period of time.

To obtain carbon layer, the conducting glass was placed over a candle flame for a few seconds so that black carbon soot formed readily on the surface.