conflagration
IPA: kɑnfɫʌgrˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- A large fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning.
- (figuratively) A large-scale conflict.
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Examples of "conflagration" in Sentences
- Nobody was injured in the conflagration.
- Forty thousand people died in the conflagration.
- He was shot in the arm during the conflagration.
- The conflagration decimated one third of the city.
- A conflagration nearly destroyed the village in 1893.
- Betty and her lover manage to escape the conflagration.
- Over the centuries the town suffered repeatedly from conflagration.
- The current schoolhouse was built after the conflagration of Turku in 1827.
- The Banyamulenge would again prove to be the spark of another conflagration.
- The degree of detail for the Bellflower Street conflagration is not required.