Sentence examples for columns of flames from inspiring English sources
Firefighters battled large columns of flames and the roof collapsed as the fire raged for more than three hours.
(Reuters) - A wildfire fed by parched land and high winds spread in Southern California on Saturday, prompting hundreds of people to evacuate their homes as the blaze formed destructive columns of flames known as fire tornadoes.
In April 2015, fires in Zabaikal destroyed villages just outside the regional capital of Chita, as captured in a viral video of cars escaping between erupting columns of flame.
A spectacular fire last night engulfed a sprawling apartment complex under construction near the Hudson River in Edgewater, N.J., destroyed or damaged at least eight occupied homes across the street, and sent columns of flame 200 feet into the air.
Yet, while the production features stunning columns of flame as part of its eclectic mise-en-scène, it never acquires the fiery, all-consuming urgency that "Romeo and Juliet" should deliver.
The blaze continued to threaten small communities throughout the area, some of which had been abandoned by residents, tourists and business owners who fled after looking skyward and seeing gray plumes of smoke or columns of flame rising from nearby mountain ranges.
In the worst of the bombings on Wednesday, the fuel truck explosion in the Mansour neighborhood sent a 50-foot-high column of flames and smoke into the air.
People call it the "mushroom cloud" but it's actually a pillar of fire: The bottom part is a column of flames and the top part is a fireball, which metamorphoses into clouds as it keeps rising up.
The tank crushes one man under its treads, squeezes drops of blood from a screaming second man in its talons, and engulfs a third man in a column of flame that spurts from between its dragonlike fangs.
