Sentence examples for ablaze against from inspiring English sources

That morning, at dawn, my screen showed a twenty-four-story social-housing block, Grenfell Tower, in West London, entirely ablaze against the pale blue of a perfect summer morning.

And Friday's performance — which he opened, wild eyes ablaze, with "Man Against Machine" — made it clear he'd been burning to get back to his established ways.

It could be donated to a charity or sold to an auto recycler, but the inspired choice would be to send it off in a blaze of glory – or maybe just ablaze – racing against similarly wretched bits of better-forgotten automotive history.

The Arab Spring began in Tunisia in 2010 when a street vendor set himself ablaze in protest against the government.

The following month a Buddhist monk, Thich Quang Duc, publicly doused himself with gasoline and set himself ablaze as a protest against Diem's repression.

However, local Marines have partnered with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to conduct aerial firefighting against several wildfires ablaze in San Diego County.

Mr. Segal was arrested in 2005, when he was a 19-year-old college student, as he tried to set an Army recruiting center in the Bronx ablaze as part of a protest against the Iraq war.

He has had "vandalism" charges pending against him since last year, when he set a tire ablaze in homage to the Ukrainian revolution, but he has not been behind bars.

That his English may not be perfect because he spent his high school years playing soccer and guarding his female friends against rape in a schoolyard that was often ablaze with rebel fires.

The never-dull press corps when we were in Bosnia had at its kernel an antagonism between Ian and a particular expert who would argue that intervention against the Bosnian Serbs would set the region ablaze.

AIKEN, S.C. — The horses' straw beds were ablaze, with the rest of the barn, when two men rushed in against the flames and black smoke to try to save the 11 horses inside.