Example Sentences

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Whereas a steady succession of hopefuls before him in Seattle had flamed out quickly since Lou Piniella migrated to Tampa Bay in 2003, Servais has instead become a fixture.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 25, 2023

Here, during the same run of fire, the eponymous Inchelium Complex Fire had flamed across 19,000 acres and damaged more than a dozen buildings.

From Salon • Nov. 7, 2021

Work on “Smile,” the California band’s much-labored-over follow-up to 1966’s epochal “Pet Sounds,” had flamed out spectacularly, bringing unwanted attention to Brian Wilson’s mental health struggles.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 27, 2021

A burning smell coming from a piece of electronics this old usually meant a board had flamed out or the power supply was bad.

From Slate • May 29, 2021

The attractions of a martial life had shone more brightly than the light which had flamed about him in his boyhood.

From William Penn by Hodges, George