Sentence examples for scene on fire from inspiring English sources
"It was extremely difficult to get them out because -- imagine an earthquake scene on fire," said Robert Saunders, a spokesman for the Gloucester City Fire Department.
It is 1943, and the Los Angeles jazz scene is on fire.
The start-up scene is on fire, flooded with apps and services that are attracting users and backing from venture capitalists.
Howard believes the UK music scene is on fire right now – and namechecks Adele and Mumford & Sons as leading the fight – but this British renaissance has come under fire from some critics.
The problem with throwing a lavish movie premiere with torch-wielding fire dancers and a simulated erupting volcano is that when the whole scene catches on fire, attendees may think it's part of the show.
A natural ironist, she hates sentiment, and is happiest when looking at grim industrial scenes or setting stuff on fire, such as the hair on the legs of boys she likes.
F Scott Fitzgerald's landmark novel tells the story of the mysterious Jay Gatsby who sets the louche social scene of Long Island on fire with his style, parties and enigmatic persona.
Audiences appreciated both luxury and appropriateness of décor and costume: Pepys was quite capable of going several times to see a play that, as such, he disliked, purely for the pleasure of viewing striking and innovative scenery like "a good scene of a town on fire".
Pictures from the scene showed two properties on fire.
The scene is the same on Fire Island.
When he arrived at the scene, the A.P.C. was on fire, and people were standing about watching it burn.
