are flaming
- present progressive of flame.
Example Sentences
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There are flaming torches, dry-ice fog banks and explosions.
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2015
Churches, synagogues, ashrams and mosques without reason are flaming candles without light.
From Time Magazine Archive
Elsewhere, there are flaming hoops perched at different levels that performers slip in and out of with ease, as though the hoops were only metal and not encased in flickering flames.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
The frost has painted things up for you; the sumac bushes are flaming and the running briars on the fences are streams of fire.
From An Arkansas Planter by Read, Opie Percival
Day and night, as dust on the wheel, he is rolled along the heavens, through a labyrinth of worlds, and all the creations of God are flaming above and beneath.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various
