flame
noun
burning gas or vapor, as from wood or coal, that is undergoing combustion; a portion of ignited gas or vapor.
flamelike
-
a word derived from
flame.
Example Sentences
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Another time, he realized that he’d accidentally marred the negative, resulting in a flamelike black presence at the edge of the image.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 30, 2019
The expressionist abstraction of a flamelike St. Peter in a roiling landscape by El Greco, the Crete-born Doménikos Theotokópoulos?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2019
A flamelike streak of colorful clouds appeared in the sky over Pinnacles National Park in central California on Tuesday.
From Slate ● Apr. 27, 2018
His movie-screen-size canvases loaded with lushly colored paint applied in broad swaths interrupted by flamelike passages hold a much-honored place in the canon of American Modernism.
From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2011
She ran, the colors of her dress flaring flamelike in the bright places of the dark.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
