Sentence examples for conflagration spread from inspiring English sources

The conflagration spread, and fighting raged throughout the day.

The conflagration spread rapidly amid panicked shouts of "Fire!" Many workers had no chance.

The conflagration spread across 20 acres, illuminating the river for miles and turning the gunboat riggings into a "fine sight" that gleamed in the dark night.

The fact that monetary policy was being tightened during a recession only spooked investors more, and the conflagration spread to other countries, including Malaysia and Indonesia.

ABUJA, Nigeria — Suicide bombers crashed an explosives-laden Volkswagen into a crowded bus on Monday as it was parked at a depot in Kano, northern Nigeria's largest city, and officials said at least 20 people were killed, possibly many more, as the conflagration spread to four nearby buses.

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.

Similarly, problems in the subprime-mortgage market were once regarded as too obscure to affect the entire American economy.The failure to extinguish the Greek flames has allowed the conflagration to spread to Ireland, Portugal and, intermittently, to Spain.

"What we are seeing is the conflagration is spreading to other rhino populations," said Milliken.

The forest fires in Michigan, reported yesterday [July 12], were mere rushlights as compared with the tremendous conflagrations which spread destruction across vast areas of forest land in Northern Ontario.

The conflagration continued to spread, however, and, after Orozco and Villa captured Ciudad Juárez (May 10 , 1911, Díaz capitulated and resigned.

By many accounts, the new arsenal of social networking helped accelerate Tunisia's revolution, driving the country's ruler of 23 years, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, into ignominious exile and igniting a conflagration that has spread across the Arab world at breathtaking speed.