Sentence examples for conflagration from from inspiring English sources

"White House Down," the latest conflagration from that master blaster Roland Emmerich, is as demented and entertaining as promised, and a little less idiotic than feared.

As the paths of these characters converge, Bohjalian works to flesh out their disparate views of the conflagration, from the Prussians who can't understand why the Soviets are committing atrocities (while attributing all German atrocities to "SS brutes and thugs") to Uri, who sees the refugees as "fleeing a retribution they had asked for".

According to legend, Metacomet orchestrated the burning of Simsbury, Connecticut, and watched the conflagration from Talcott Mountain near the cave now named after him.

By dawn on Sunday these houses were burning, and Samuel Pepys, observing the conflagration from the Tower of London, recorded great concern for friends living on the bridge.

As Apollo's chariot adeptly carries its conflagration from east to west, the European Monetary Union carries its members on the path of economic growth.

We've had more than a few conflagrations from these accursed brownouts.

Their Han Chinese owners fled the scene, but 18 died in the conflagration or from physical assaults.

But by Manilow standards it's a conflagration, sung from the perspective of "a nobody longing for hot light/ lost in the crowd," who achieves success, becomes intoxicated by it and then, corroded by it, collapses, a brittle mess.

I mean, there was a lot of reasons to have provocations in the area, but the match that started the conflagration was from the Georgian side".

Once a fire strikes the urban fringe it may morph into an urban conflagration, spreading from structure to structure, as happened in Santa Rosa, California, last fall.

In those and other cases, local emergency responders were overwhelmed by the conflagrations resulting from these accidents.