flame
noun
burning gas or vapor, as from wood or coal, that is undergoing combustion; a portion of ignited gas or vapor.
will flame
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future tenseof flame.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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He said determining which kickers have the fortitude to succeed like McPherson and which ones will flame out like Tampa Bay 2016 second-round pick Roberto Aguayo is nearly impossible to know.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 4, 2022
Maybe he will flame out in the next round.
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2020
Or else Price will flame out again, and Cora will figure out another way to get through the rest of the game.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 11, 2018
Many scold that the idea will flame out the same way it did when the Clinton administration pondered and then dropped a big relocation initiative, and the Reagan administration did the same before it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2017
Then with more than sunset splendor, it will flame and glow and die away and glow again, giving up itself in a glory of color that breathes out beauty, witchery, mystery, all in one.
From Bark Kathleen Sunk By A Whale by Thomas H. Jenkins
