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noun

conflagration

an extensive fire that destroys a great deal

In a sentence

Six example sentences with conflagration, each labelled with its topic.

  • After the conflagration of 1871 swept through the city, Chicago rebuilt in brick and steel rather than timber.

    Architecture

  • London's diarists recorded four days of conflagration in 1666, by the end of which most of the medieval city was ash.

    History

  • Two dry summers and a lightning strike turned the pine slopes into a conflagration visible from satellites for a week.

    Environment

  • The film's final conflagration was shot on a scale model, with the mansion burning in a studio parking lot.

    Movies

  • The 1835 conflagration in New York bankrupted most of the city's insurers within a week.

    Finance

  • The novel ends with a conflagration that takes the manor and every letter hidden inside it.

    Literature

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