How to Use wildfire in a Sentence

wildfire

noun

• The recent wildfires were made worse by the strong winds.
• Pruitt chalks this up to the abundance of wildfires and droughts that plague the West.
  — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 24 Apr. 2023
• And that group took off like a wildfire and spread all over the country.
  — David Begnaud, CBS News, 25 Mar. 2023
• The slang term that caught on like wildfire at the top of 2022 was no accident.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 21 Mar. 2023
• The Mosquito Fire is the state's largest wildfire this year.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 17 Sep. 2022
• Land area burned by wildfires varies by state, with more burns in the Western part of the country than in the East.
  — Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Aug. 2025
• This year’s wildfire season brings a huge threat of big blazes.
  — Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 May 2022
• Word spread like wildfire across the base that the 101 were to be flown away, Warren would later write.
  — Ko Lyn Cheang, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Mar. 2022
• Losses due to wildfire added up to $5.1 billion over the past 10 years.
  — Op Almaraz, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
• Discontent spread like wildfire to the countries of the East bloc.
  — ABC News, 30 Aug. 2022
• Heat licked up her spine, as swift and sudden as wildfire.
  — Jessica Leon, EW.com, 27 Feb. 2023
• At 40% contained as of Sunday, the McKinney Fire is the state’s largest wildfire of the year.
  — Ginger Adams Otis, WSJ, 7 Aug. 2022
• This ensures the wildfire has nothing to feed on and stops it from growing.
  — Kira Caspers, The Arizona Republic, 28 June 2024
• Good forestry practices can reduce the risk of wildfire.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 7 Mar. 2022
• The wildfire, which is now 96% contained, exploded to that size in less than 48 hours.
  — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 5 Sep. 2022
• Even as Smith entered the grounds, news spread like wildfire among those inside the building.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Mar. 2022
• Their rental house, in South Lake Tahoe, backed up to the forest that had been devastated by the wildfire in 2021.
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
• At sunset, the wildfire haze stretched across the Western horizon.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2022
• The enormous York wildfire will contribute to the problem.
  — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2023
• Fire season is in full swing, with wildfires blazing in a dozen U.S. states and Canada.
  — Jen Reeder, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
• As of late July more than 600 wildfires were out of control in Canada.
  — Seth Borenstein, Fortune, 31 July 2023
• Pine trees are accustomed to wildfire, and pinecones are hardy enough to protect their seeds from fire.
  — Katie Nadworny, The Atlantic, 28 Oct. 2022
• That changed when the grapes were severely damaged by wildfire smoke in 2020.
  — Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 18 Jan. 2022
• The area had been scorched by a wildfire and left vulnerable to flooding.
  — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 11 Jan. 2023
• As of Thursday morning, the fire crew managed to contain 85% of this wildfire.
  — Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 3 Apr. 2025
• Sometimes, the wildfire that is the Alabama-Auburn rivalry doesn’t need much of a spark to reignite.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 31 Jan. 2022
• Last week, the military announced about 200 of those troops would be returned to their units to fight wildfires.
  — Christopher Weber, Chicago Tribune, 8 July 2025
• Maui's 150-year-old banyan tree is growing leaves after being charred by the wildfires.
  — Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 5 Oct. 2023
• In March, more than two-thirds of voters agreed to raise the city’s sales tax by .5% to fund wildfire prevention measures.
  — Stephen Hobbs, Sacramento Bee, 2 May 2024
• Smoke from wildfires in the southwest is also expected to cloud the Front Range on Friday and reduce air quality.
  — Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 1 Aug. 2025