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Recent Examples of blaze
Noun
As of Wednesday evening, a crew of ten firefighters has achieved full containment of the blaze. Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 24 Apr. 2025 Indeed, battling wildfires has been in the news in a spectacular way, particularly in the Los Angeles area, where nearly three weeks of blazes in January killed more than two dozen people and destroyed more than 18,000 homes and structures. Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2025
Verb
With the sun blazing through your domestic fourth house of home and family — while in harmonious energy flow with Jupiter in your sixth house of improvement, logistics and responsibility — you could feel called to improve your living space, or create more space for your belongings. Valerie Mesa, People.com, 6 Apr. 2025 Then there was Freeman, daringly traipsing around their harmonic fringes in hard-rocking, blazing solos. Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for blaze
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blaze
Noun
  • Martin's son Gabe, hiding alone under a blanket, said the explosion left his ears ringing and smelled like burning batteries.
    Bart Jansen, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2025
  • The explosion of laws meant to protect minors from potentially harmful online content perhaps sounds noble at first glance, but with a second pass the laws read as superfluous.
    John Tamny, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • We were both immediately captivated by the mood-setting glow of what seemed like hundreds of candles lit throughout the space.
    India Espy-Jones, Essence, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Look for the soft glow on the moon’s darkened side — that’s Earthshine, sunlight reflecting off our planet's oceans, ice caps and clouds.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • All the nervous energy that had built up at American Airlines Center was released in a burst of delirious joy.
    Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2025
  • The Hubble Space Telescope's recent deep-dive into Andromeda has been able to track the disorder in M31 that the merger left in its wake: streams of stars cannibalized from the galaxy eaten by M31 and producing a burst of star formation.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 22 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Singles players routinely react with varying intensities of glare if an opponent sends a smash in their direction, because there is often more open court at which to aim.
    Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Under the glare of the desert floodlights, a title fight that has been quietly smoldering since Melbourne has now erupted into an open flame.
    Kanzah Maktoum, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Nothing but quick and shocking outbursts of violence can pierce the movie’s surfaces of overheated restraint.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
  • But Al-Sheikh has also drawn attention for a succession of public outbursts, many over issues that appear petty.
    Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But Kerr has won four championships and has repeatedly proven himself under the brightest lights.
    Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Total Blindness People with total blindness cannot see anything, including any light.
    Heidi Cope, Health, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Volcanic eruptions in the Massif Central gave birth to the granite rocks of the northern Rhône, while layers upon layers of calcareous marine deposits in the south gave rise to prominent sandstone formations.
    Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 18 Apr. 2025
  • In 2021, La Palma was stuck by a volcanic eruption that displaced thousands of people and reshaped parts of the island.
    Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 13 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Highland wasn’t even a gleam in anybody’s eye when Johnson ruled the city.
    Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 10 Mar. 2025
  • But also required is investment in new technologies that today may be only a gleam in some researcher’s eye.
    DANIEL YERGIN, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025

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“Blaze.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blaze. Accessed 4 May. 2025.

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