Sentence examples for column of fire from inspiring English sources

At midnight, the column of fire and cloud, the vast toxic fir tree, was 19 miles high.

This is the moment a twisting column of fire shot into the sky after a Missouri farmer set his field alight.

She roared into the heavens a fortnight ago atop a column of fire, enthralling a million spectators as she set off on her final voyage.

He was awed by the majesty of the column of fire, which was at least eight miles in diameter and fifty miles high.

We have much to thank 30 years of the shuttle for and it will be a bittersweet moment this week as we watch the last one leave for space on a column of fire and smoke.

That created a column of fire which then detached itself to form a floating, quivering fireball.Now, Dr Jerby and Dr Dikhtyar have teamed up with Brian Mitchell of the University of Rennes and his colleagues at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), a giant X-ray machine in France, to analyse the structure of their fireballs.

The canyons serve as chimneys, and in minutes whole mountains are aflame, resembling volcanoes, emitting high columns of fire and smoke.

This is what the Biblical scholar James Kugel refers to as the "starkness" of the Hebrew Bible, a bare, hard world in which a desert landscape of rocks and rare streams is briefly lit up by columns of fire.

Eyewitnesses describe a fighter jet dropping the device, a low explosion, followed by columns of fire and smoke.

It went up, so unbelievably slowly, like a weird, self-powered skyscraper balanced on a column of white fire.

This method was established taking into account the axial and rotational restraint to the column in case of fire, the column slenderness and the load level.