flaming sword

noun

1. a cultivated bromeliad, Vriesea splendens, native to French Guiana, having long, red bracts and yellow flowers.

Example Sentences

We have Justice Jackson coming out with a flaming sword of a dissent, this time taking direct aim at Justice Gorsuch, and his cynically deployed version of textualism.

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The flaming sword of the Second Division Memorial — like most war memorials at the time devoted to a military entity or the dead of some locality rather than the whole of a war — was dedicated near the White House in 1936.

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The gilded Statue of the Republic rose before me, set alight by the setting sun until it glowed as brightly as the angel Dumah’s flaming sword.

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“And that was when it came to me like a beautiful revelation. It was an epiphany. At that moment, looking into his eyes, I knew my purpose in life. My destiny. To rid the world of you. To become God’s flaming sword.”

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Then you realize that glow is a flaming sword.

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