Sentence examples for flames climbed from inspiring English sources

"And we were taking things out of one side of the camp to another because the flames climbed so high.

Crassus had his own private fire department, and if your house caught fire his representatives would offer to buy it on the spot, at a one-time-only, fire-sale price that would fall rapidly as the flames climbed.

The flames climbed higher Friday after the Italian Treasury had to pay an interest rate of 6.5 percent on a new issue of six-month bills — more than three percentage points higher than a similar debt auction on Oct. 26.

On a Wednesday night last September, as the late-night bunch finished one of summer's last meals, flames climbed through the slats in the boardwalk, blackening the wood, melting the glass facade and trapping people in a private dining room.

Lush waited out the fire on a gravel area near his house and watched the flames climb to more than 25 metres.

As the death toll in the Oakland warehouse fire climbs, investigators face a daunting task: figuring out how flames swiftly raced through the building and killed so many inside. .

But in an overgrown forest, flames can climb the small trees into the high forest canopy, creating a "crown fire" that can leap with the winds and take out thousands of acres quickly.

Especially as while we climbed fire cannons above shot flames 50 feet in the air, music blared out the speakers and lasers dazzled the crowd (and me)!

They were overrun by flames just after climbing into silver, tentlike emergency fire shelters.

The flame licked the sweetbreads, climbed the trail of brandy and exploded the bottle.

Racing to disconnect the line from the main fuel supply, Sergeant Hissong did not realize Company B had finally caught a break: Flames were also climbing the wooden stairs to the tower, filling it with smoke.