Sentence examples for had been flaming from inspiring English sources

Even the fire that had been flaming on the hearth stopped and went to sleep, and the roast stopped crackling, and the cook, who was about to pull the kitchen boy's hair because he had done something wrong, let him go and fell asleep.

Fortified by his protein-packed dinner, Harris went out the next day and cut down several trees — most likely evergreens like loblolly or red bays, or perhaps a black gum, whose leaves would have been flaming a deep red in early November.

Sure, a lot of them have been flaming out.

After you've been lobbing flaming insults from the moral high ground, any subsequent climbdown is humiliating.

From Pete Doherty's anxiety attacks before Libertines shows and Ezra Furman's songs about mental precariousness to Florence Welch's public account of depression, there has been no flaming glamour to these tales, only straight-talking stories of the distress and the drudgery of mental turmoil.

In light of Arsenal's latest away defeat at St James Parkk, there has been one flaming hot take setting football Twitter ablaze.

Witnesses reported that chunks of flaming scaffolding had been crashing down around the building.

By the time the fire department arrived, a flaming electric scooter had been blasted with a fire extinguisher and placed in a back parking lot, according to the fire department's incident report.

Eventually we formed a convoy and in this way arrived at our destination, an old hotel at whose half-open door two flaming torches had been set.

On a hot June day in 1964 in Milwaukee, barely a week after Eddie Sachs and Dave MacDonald had been burned to death in a flaming crash at Indianapolis, Hurtubise, too, was burned.

But there were always those who felt that "Carrie," like its unhappy heroine, had been badly abused and could have shone bright instead of flaming out.