flamy
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of flamy
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
The jostling, swaying lines on either side boil, and roar, and dash their flamy spray, two hostile billows of a fiery ocean.
From The Battle of Gettysburg by Frank Aretas Haskell
The cat upon the stairs Watches with flamy eye For the sleepy one who shall unawares Let her go stealing by.
From Poems by William Dean Howells
Only the flamy ladies' slippers seemed appropriate to the miles of heat that flickered against the landscape.
From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by Compton MacKenzie
A flamy devil as in young Henry, or a brimstone devil as in Geoffrey of Brittany, or a spitfire devil as was John's—with these she could cope, her lord had had them all.
From The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Maurice Henry Hewlett
It was a child with a face like a bud of apple-blossom, and glistening fair hair like thistle-down sticking out in straight, wild, flamy pieces, and very dark eyes.
From The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Then he riz his head and stired straight fer me, his eyes gitting flamier as he looked, an’ his tail all on the jerk.
From Tales from the Veld by Ernest Glanville
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a wordDefinitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
