How to Use aflame in a Sentence

aflame

adjective

• The rekindling of an old love affair was aflame.
  — Amy Lawrence, New York Times, 31 May 2026
• Then the ships are all aflame and there’s fire everywhere.
  — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 22 Dec. 2025
• Cars set on fire, government buildings set aflame.
  — ABC News, 11 Jan. 2026
• Taylor then lights a cigarette, sets the tchotchkes aflame, and fury-walks out the door.
  — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Jan. 2026
• The valley forest has a plethora of red maple trees aflame with color in the fall.
  — Dave Parfitt, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025
• But recent auction prices have not exactly set the market for his work aflame.
  — Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 25 Feb. 2026
• Ellis saves her, knocking the creature into the fire and setting him aflame.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
• What is there to be explained about a Texas State secondary that got doused in gasoline and lit aflame?
  — Caleb Yum, Austin American Statesman, 12 Oct. 2025
• He was charged with arson, malicious destruction by means of a fire and timber set aflame.
  — ABC News, 25 June 2026
• At a moment when the Middle East feels aflame, four people looking back at this planet from deep space didn’t see borders.
  — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2026
• When police exited their vehicle, some people began to jump on the hood of the car, and the cruiser was then hit by fireworks and set aflame.
  — Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 5 Dec. 2025
• The upside to having her wedding in a bunker is that maybe the whole internet won’t be aflame about her dress choice, for instance, until at least a few days after.
  — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 26 June 2026
• The gas station was already aflame, when policeman Mykhailo Tsypliakov and his colleagues ran in to help.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 31 July 2026
• Elias, on horseback, brings a wagon full of burning barrels, driving it directly into the Van Ness home, setting it aflame.
  — Barry Levitt, Time, 4 Dec. 2025
• Doesn’t sound like the bio that will set hearts aflame in the party of Graham Platner and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
  — Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 5 Dec. 2025
• Israel’s military said in a statement that the incursion came after Palestinians had hurled rocks at Israelis and set tires aflame.
  — Toqa Ezzidin, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2026
• An Instagram post by New York City councilman Chi Ossé's was the spark that set the discourse aflame.
  — Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 17 Apr. 2026
• Japan’s Neapolitan-style pizza has set the food world aflame, showing how the country is whipping up pizza that’s just as good (if not better) than its Italian competitors.
  — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 16 Mar. 2026
• Just minutes after his body caught aflame, Terry McCarty realized the true extent of his burns, which scorched 73 percent of his skin.
  — Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 25 Nov. 2025
• Flyers for the event had been ubiquitous around Vienna over the past month, featuring a microphone drenched in stage blood, the Eurovision logo set aflame.
  — Steven Blum, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• As the work of Colorado’s investigators has stretched on, the diaspora of associates and friends and lawyers who knew Hunter has been aflame with speculation.
  — New York Times, 18 Jan. 2026
• Last June, the internet was suddenly aflame with outrage after images emerged of initial looks for Pidgeon and Kelly in character.
  — Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 10 June 2026
• But the action is nullified by the fact that Ono assumes the stoic posture of the Buddhist monks seen in the news at the time setting themselves aflame in protest of the Vietnam War.
  — Classical Music Critic, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2026
• Almost immediately, as the rumors were confirmed, gossip blogs and Reddit threads were aflame, monitoring how long this illicit relationship could have been going on while Ciara was none the wiser.
  — Shamira Ibrahim, HollywoodReporter, 8 Apr. 2026
• Located right in Mystic is the Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center, which offers numerous hiking trails winding through forests of stately oaks, red maples, and American beech trees aflame with color.
  — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Sep. 2026
• Official statistics are hard to come by, but town residents — several of whom asked to be identified by only first names to protect their safety — estimated around 80 cars were set aflame in a municipality of just 20,000 people.
  — Senior Editor, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026
• Tired of grinding out a living in Vegas, ballerina-turned-showgirl Michelle (Sutton Foster) finally agrees to marry Hubbell (Alan Ruck), a longtime suitor who doesn’t exactly set her heart aflame.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 11 Aug. 2026