flaming

IPA: fɫˈeɪmɪŋ

noun

  • An emission or application of fire; act of burning with flames.
  • Sterilization by holding an object in a hot flame.
  • (Internet slang) Vitriolic criticism.
  • A surname.

adjective

  • On fire with visible flames.
  • Very bright and the color of flame.
  • (colloquial) Extremely obvious; visibly evident. Typically of a homosexual male.
  • (Britain, colloquial) Damned, bloody.
  • Very enthusiastic or passionate.
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Examples of "flaming" in Sentences

  • So it must follow that flaming is the new sparkling?
  • Yes, Zeus, Socrates and I put the flaming in flaming cheese together.
  • For what you call your flaming zeal, I do not in the least object to it.
  • In the sunlight, the chrome-steel of the shaft gleamed in flaming splendor.
  • Not disagreed in flaming, you understand, but simply presented an alternative idea.
  • In one doorway, cheeks flaming from the struggle, stood Rita, alert as a fawn and ready to flee.
  • Came the lightning, before us, behind us, on every side, bathing us in flaming minutes at a time.
  • He was flaming from the fresh reading of the ripest thought he had expressed, and her verdict stunned him.
  • Over the city of the Mercenaries we saw a great captive war-balloon that burst even as we looked at it, and fell in flaming wreckage toward the earth.
  • And the contractor woundered why there were things falling out of the sky in flaming pieces, disappearing in the vicinity of the "primary planet for Phobos and Deimos" (the name of the planet is being withheld to protect the guilty), and satellites failing to reach their assigned orbits due to miswiring that prevented separation from the upper stage of the booster!

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