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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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
Most of its layers were horizontal, but a few formed curlicues or flamelike patterns called truncated flame structures, which were caused by a combination of weight from above and mini-surges in the incoming water.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 29, 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
For the glass had been cast unevenly, so that there were odd little flamelike curves in the colors.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
