1
: resembling or suggesting a flame in color, brilliance, or wavy outline
the flaming sunset sky
flaming red hair
2
: being on fire : blazing
a flaming torch
3
: intense, passionate
flaming youth
4
—used as an intensive
you flaming idiot
flamingly
adverb
Examples of flaming in a Sentence
a fancy restaurant serving eye-catching flaming desserts
a flaming speech in support of basic human rights
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Brian Truitt, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
Firemen spoke of seeing tenants sitting outside flaming buildings with their belongings neatly arranged beside them.
—Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
Warm up in the adjacent Fire Lounge, which features food and flaming cocktails.
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Brian Truitt, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
Firemen spoke of seeing tenants sitting outside flaming buildings with their belongings neatly arranged beside them.
—Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
Warm up in the adjacent Fire Lounge, which features food and flaming cocktails.
—Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 July 2025
Among the disturbing scenes from the recent Los Angeles protests, which erupted over federal immigration raids, are those in which protestors stood around the flaming Waymos.
—Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 9 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for flaming
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“Flaming.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flaming. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.
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