adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a blazing/flaming row (= a very angry row )
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She had a blazing row with Eddie and stormed out of the house.
bright/brilliant/blazing/dazzling sunshine
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We stepped out of the plane into the bright sunshine of Corfu.
burning/blazing/smoking wreckage
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He managed to crawl away from the burning wreckage.
eyes blazing with fury
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Jo stepped forward, her eyes blazing with fury .
raging/blazing inferno
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Within minutes, the house had become a raging inferno.
sb’s eyes are burning/smouldering/blazing with hate literary
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Then he noticed the dark eyes, smouldering with hate.
the blazing/burning sun
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Tourists trudge around in the blazing sun.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
fire
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It might have been the blazing fire in the corner of this very upmarket restaurant.
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She is best remembered for extinguishing a blazing fire by making the sign of the cross.
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He threw off the blanket, picked up the limp girl and gently placed her on the mat in front of the blazing fire .
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However, whether a small spark is struck or a blazing fire lit, the flame is the same.
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He came through as she was slamming the food on to the low coffee-table in front of the obediently blazing fire .
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I settled happily before the blazing fire , musing upon the stupidity of salmon fishing and certain of my friends.
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She greeted Charlotte in a drawing room strewn with plants and pictures where an impassive bloodhound dozed before a blazing fire .
row
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Charles summoned Adeane, they had yet another blazing row , and Adeane returned to the more predictable workings of the Bar.
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You know how it is: one minute you're talking, the next there's a blazing row .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
with all guns blazing
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Ewood Park is a lucky ground for them and in the first half they went for Blackburn with all guns blazing.
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Kasparov has won, but Karpov went down with all guns blazing to an honourable defeat.
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Naomi has moved in, with all guns blazing.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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At twilight, the blazing orange sunset turned into a muted pink.
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The blazing lights of the casino shone out across the bay.
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the blazing reds and oranges of the flowers
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The heat from the blazing car could be felt several metres away.
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They sat on the sofa in front of a blazing fire.
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We stood for hours in the blazing sun.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Charles summoned Adeane, they had yet another blazing row, and Adeane returned to the more predictable workings of the Bar.
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Soon after lunch, as they sheltered from the blazing heat, Julie stretched out on a towel and blanket.
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The blazing wreckage crashed into wild, inaccessible countryside only eight miles from the airport.
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The lightning was the forked kind and it branched suddenly like a firework and yet like the limb of a blazing tree.
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These mighty creatures made their lairs beneath the blazing peaks of the Dragon Spine Mountains.
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Tiny figures in the distance, silhouetted against the flames, rushed about trying to extinguish the blazing hangars.