Example Sentences

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Something was inflaming his young brain, disrupting the formation of healthy neural connections; the cause might be historical, or ongoing.

From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2019

During that meeting, the White House chief of staff, John F. Kelly, told Ms. Pirro she was inflaming an already vexed president, the people said.

From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2018

Hyman told him that dairy was inflaming his bowel.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 30, 2015

It was inflaming within her a great desire to be up and doing in this stricken city, where the fell disease was walking to and fro and striking down its victims by hundreds and thousands.

From The Sign of the Red Cross by Everett-Green, Evelyn

The work was inflaming and insidious, as it was beautiful.

From Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century by Ware, William