Examples of ablaze

• As the contents easily caught fire, the building was fully ablaze in a short time.

• The fire spread rapidly to several decks and by the evening the whole of the upper structure was ablaze.

• In a few seconds the whole of the clothing is ablaze and the person may be burned from head to foot.

• The adjacent timber yard was set ablaze again, almost as a demonstration against authority.

• Now the finance committee will have to be ablaze with life.

• He was lighting a decoy fire, but the trouble is that had the fire got well alight it would have set ablaze everything in the country that is worth having.

• They had thought that it was out, but it had reignited when they started and, by the time they reached the other end of the site, it was ablaze.

• At any rate, people must really understand if they play with fire in one respect the chances are sparks from that fire will set things ablaze in other directions.