Sentence examples for before flames from inspiring English sources

The fire department put it out before flames could climb the hill.

In such scenarios, it has been observed that the smoke is visible well before flames can be sighted.

It was not long before flames were roaring through a ground-floor ballroom and the first floor of the Taj.

The grills are gas-powered and quiet, at least when they work; there is often an unnerving period of clicking before flames finally lick the thick, clear plate.

Fortunately, a nephew snatched the scroll from the funeral pyre that day in 1650, but not before flames split the work in two.

Residents said they were woken by a loud bang at about 01 00 BST before flames took hold.

Unknown assailants had blasted the metal doors to the same office with a fire bomb just days before, leaving flame marks, and the gates had been refortified.

These results clearly indicate that the amount of the residual solvent in the precursor coating layer (Figure 1c) before flame annealing has a strong impact on the final morphology of Co3O4 on the CuO NWs.

For both solvents, the dip-coated NW samples are dried for 0.4 h at 25°C to leave a large amount of solvent on the CuO NWs before flame annealing.

Seven fire departments battled the blaze before the flames were extinguished shortly before midnight.

Though he scored 99 points the season before, the Flames received few offers before agreeing to send him to Minnesota.