Sentence examples for had been ablaze from inspiring English sources

Constance continues: "The slope of raw clay had been ablaze, when her father passed along that way, with red poppies and with those yellow flowers that love broken ground".

The previous summer, London, alongside countless other major cities, had been ablaze with discontent gone nuclear, when a protest following the death of Mark Duggan at the hands of the metropolitan police escalated into five days of riots and looting.

Ever since BioShock's release late last month, message boards across the Internet have been ablaze with kudos.

Over the past 24 hours, Kanye West's Twitter feed has been ablaze with breaking news, bold announcements and one hell of a heated spat.

With Saab's recent bankruptcy and liquidation woes, the Internet has been ablaze with reports of consumers buying Saabs at pennies on the krona.

Gaming news sites have been ablaze this week discussing whether the ladies of Wisteria Lane can cut it in the virtual world.

Yet the media and the blogosphere have been ablaze with Tory talk of the unacceptable politicisation of the police under Labour.

Online comment boards have been ablaze with fans who are shocked by a major plotline revealed in the book's opening pages: Jessica has betrayed her sister by planning to marry Elizabeth's ex-boyfriend, the handsome but bland Todd Wilkins.

On Friday, Mr. Saeed was assigned with a half-dozen other rebels to guard the entrance to the refinery, where a liquefied petroleum gas tank has been ablaze for a week, sending thick plumes of smoke miles across the desert.

Even as many networks are reducing their coverage of the increasingly predictable political conventions, the political blogs, which have become a fruitful alternative for individual voices, have been ablaze over the prospect of officially covering conventions for the first time.

The second image captures a spectacle that was only accidentally man-made: at Darvaza, Turkmenistan, a seventy-metre-wide hole in the earth, nicknamed "Door to Hell," that has been ablaze since 1971.