flaming sword

American

noun

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

Example Sentences

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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.

From Washington Post

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.

From Literature

Then you realize that glow is a flaming sword.

From Los Angeles Times

He holds a flaming sword, and the bubbling lava and the freezing mist are as one to him.

From Literature

Surtr’s flaming sword is huge and it burns even when it misses.

From Literature

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