Sentence examples for curtain of fire from inspiring English sources

In a painting called "Fireworks" the night sky is a curtain of fire.

These eruptions, called 'continental flood basalts' were not like volcanic eruptions we often see today, with lava gushing from the ground like a curtain of fire.

Lava fountains along the fissure formed a curtain of fire that illuminated the clouds and volcanic fumes into a red glow backlighting the black profile of the volcano's huge but gently sloping summit.

Lt. Col. John Thurman of the Army recalled a shaking like an earthquake, a sensation he knew from his California boyhood, then seeing "a curtain of fire" just outside the room where he worked.

Two hours later the fracture extended an additional 6 km (3.7 miles) down the northeast rift, forming another curtain of fire about 2 km (1.2 miles) long and 50 metres (164 feet) high at an elevation of 3,450 metres (11,300 feet).

After Beckham played a key role in London being awarded the Games in 2005 an estimated 900 million people watched as the boat sped down the River Thames synchronised to a massive pyrotechnic display that included a curtain of fire descending from Tower Bridge.

The radial fissure vents of Hawaiian volcanoes produce "curtains of fire" as lava fountains erupt along a portion of a fissure.

Nothing in these gifts will set the curtains on fire.

The cause appeared to be the combination of unexpectedly fierce resistance around Basra, the lost convoy, and the effectiveness of the Republican Guard in warding off Apache attack helicopters with a curtain of small-arms fire.

As soon as Blueghost 39 and 28 crossed the Song Meiu Giang, Kulland and Rosebeary's aircraft were met by an immediate curtain of North Vietnamese fire from every direction, hurled against them with an intensity that defied belief.

This endangers the lives of soldiers because it means you cannot fire back in ambush positions – where the standard procedure is to "put down fire", a curtain of ordnance, in order to beat a retreat.