Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for afire
Adjective
  • Equal to Tesfaye’s navel-gazing, Shults uses every trick in the music-video playbook to conjure a vivid, ultra-saturated but not quite realistic universe where the Weeknd is a brightly burning sun everyone revolves around.
    Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 15 May 2025
  • Ben Johnson has a ‘burning desire’ to be a head coach.
    Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • That's pretty vague, but the season 2 teaser trailer highlights several of the aforementioned foes and woes, from a host of haunted dolls and a swarm of bees to a flaming, winged creature and the gnarly sight of Tyler (Hunter Doohan) in his Hyde form.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Earth upon Earth has opened and already come to the iced or flaming end of everything except sludge or scales or fur.
    Julie Swarstad Johnson, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The biggest thing that gives Golden a chance to shine is his blazing speed.
    Rob Reischel, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
  • The physical evidence strongly suggested that rather than hiking across a blazing desert after enduring weeks of torment, Aimee had gotten out of a car and walked a short distance to be discovered.
    Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2025
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“Afire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/afire. Accessed 27 May. 2025.

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