eternal flame
a contained fire ignited ceremonially and kept burning, usually in a public place and as a perpetual memorial or symbol: On our trip to the United States we visited the grave of President John F. Kennedy, where there is an eternal flame.The Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima features an eternal flame symbolizing the hope for a world free of nuclear weapons.
a fire ignited naturally or accidentally, sometimes burning underground, and fueled by deposits of coal or natural gas that keep it from going out: At the Burning Mountain in Australia, an eternal flame has been slowly burning underground for 6,000 years.
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How to use eternal flame in a sentence
And Kennedy, whose grave at Arlington is marked by an eternal flame?
Three Great Men Died That Day: JFK, C.S. Lewis, and Aldous Huxley | John Garth | November 3, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd Paris too is a motor, a boiler in which the future is boiling, while we scientists keep the eternal flame burning underneath.
The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete | Emile ZolaIt has planted misery and wretchedness in this world; it peoples the future with selfish joys and lurid abysses of eternal flame.
Hell | Robert G. IngersollTragedy in neat blouses; the eternal flame all nice and safe in a kerosene stove.
Main Street | Sinclair LewisNo one had power to burn their bodies, but it was hoped that their souls would not escape the torment of eternal flame.
Modern Society | Julia Ward Howe
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