Examples of “flame” in a Sentence

noun The visible, glowing part of a fire.

• Turn the gas down until the flame is small and blue.
• A single candle flame lit the room.
• The campfire flames crackled through the night.

noun A short-lived but intense romantic relationship, or the person in it.

• She still blushes whenever someone mentions her old flame from school.
• Their summer fling was a brief flame that burned out by autumn.
• He ran into an old flame from college at the reunion.

verb To post an angry, insulting message online, or to burn with visible flames.

• Readers flamed the writer in the comments after the badly judged article went up.
• The forum thread got flamed within minutes of posting.
• The dry logs flamed up quickly.