I. noun
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.
a candle flame
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The candle flame flickered.
engulfed in flames
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The building was engulfed in flames .
fan the flames (of sth)
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The book will serve to fan the flames of debate.
flame thrower
shot down in flames
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I tried to help, but all my suggestions were shot down in flames , as usual.
went up in flames
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The whole building went up in flames .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
old
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It certainly relit an old flame of interest within me, and sent me off in two different directions at once.
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Well he happens to be an old flame of Mummy's.
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A spot of work here and there, liberally interspersed with rendezvous with an old flame ?
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Mealticket Song Me and my old flame came wining-and-dining At this restaurant.
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Hey, d' you hear about the fire-eater who couldn't go anywhere without meeting an old flame ?
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And his self-despite was so strong that he knew reviving an old flame or chasing some young actress would only aggravate it.
olympic
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Now Carter is on the verge of burning brighter than the Olympic flame .
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Everywhere you look, there are zealous keepers of the Olympic flame .
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Bondi is where the beach is burning hotter than the Olympic flame .
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Associated Press Cathy Freeman ignites the Olympic flame during the opening ceremony.
open
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Brush on the chicken and cook on an open flame grill for 10 minutes.
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On icy winter mornings, they bathe in foot tubs before the open flame of a rickety gas heater.
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Camp stoves, lanterns, electric lanterns and propane heaters without open flames are allowed.
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Phil Kelber said the evacuation was precautionary to reduce the risk that an open flame might come into contact with the gas.
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Cook on an open flame grill for 10minutes only.
red
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Explosions: red flames and chunks of rock spouted from the slopes where the Counsellors had been standing.
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Only the red flame now lives there.
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His red hair was flame in the lamplight, but there was no colour in his face.
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His tracers formed a red tongue of flame arcing down from nowhere.
small
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Brown stains caused by small flames crept inwards.
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Slowly he and his acolytes processed up the center aisle, carrying the small ball of flame .
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Cupped the small flame with a trembling hand.
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On the Fire Hills A small flame scratches the tinder.
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Some still threw buckets of snow into the small flames that lived.
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A small flame of hope lit.
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And the first small tongues of flame ignited somewhere inside her.
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Michael collected sticks from the shrubbery and threw them on, making small flames leap up.
■ NOUN
candle
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Izzie crept out last, and pinched dead the candle flame .
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Light bulbs, shaped like tiny candle flames , flicker.
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She holds the adventurers at bay by holding the scroll over a candle flame and threatening to destroy it.
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I stopped suddenly, the rage, like a candle flame , snuffed out.
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Under these conditions the methane jets pushed the candle flame outside the gauze, causing explosions.
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Heating an implement made of a straightened safety pin, he speared the bugs, then brought them to the candle flame .
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The candle flame ran huge shadows like grasping fingers across the ceiling in the draught.
gas
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The saffron-azure of the gas flame starred the orange dark.
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Later we ate lunch in front of the trembling gas flame .
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Woks are best used over a gas flame .
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The process uses a natural gas flame to break down the effluent into sulphur dioxide.
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Cookability Even though the gas flames are shielded, you lose none of the beauty of cooking with gas.
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Skin the peppers by roasting over a gas flame or under the grill until the skin blisters black.
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The front doors were almost bare of paint and shadows cast by the gas flame took on weird shapes.
■ VERB
burn
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As they watched, a tall tree in front of them seemed to be burning with a white flame .
burst
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About midnight four days later, the headquarters building of the Housing Executive burst into flames and was badly damaged.
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The fuel tanks on the planes rupture and burst into flame .
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Car blazes: A car was destroyed when it burst into flames on a busy interchange on the A19 yesterday.
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In his imagination it burst into flames .
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But the smell was disagreeable and she was afraid that the white linen would burst into flame .
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So an issue that smoldered for years has burst into flame .
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Dad Mark managed to carry her to safety before the alarm burst into flames .
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There is just one drawback to their island paradise: every so often it bursts into flame beneath them.
dance
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However, they drew the line on being told to dance with flames during one number - it just sounded too dangerous.
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The wildly dancing flames illuminated them.
douse
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Mike Chittenden staggered in flames into a neighbouring office, where terrified workers doused the flames and administered first aid.
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An over-clumsy turn of the flame adjuster towards the low heat setting can douse the flame.
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They heard his screams and doused the flames before calling emergency services.
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He dropped a lighted match in his lap, tried to douse the flames with brandy, and turned into a fireball.
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Sprinklers doused the flames as the fire brigade arrived to finish the job.
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The youngsters, aged 12 and six, were unable to douse the flames and Paul Griffiths died in hospital.
engulf
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Surrounding buildings had to be protected by a wall of water to stop them being engulfed by the flames .
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And the ambulance was engulfed in flames before firemen caught up with it.
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Two of the men were killed instantly, the third was engulfed in flames before he died an agonising death.
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In seconds, the whole wreckage was engulfed in raging flames and happiness had turned to horror.
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They reached safety seconds before the cafe was engulfed in flames .
extinguish
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Firemen wearing breathing apparatus used special foam to extinguish the flames in the factory's North Works.
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Nothing seemed to extinguish the flames .
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When fire does occur, detecting, containing and extinguishing the flames are the three main principles of immediate action.
fan
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Their efforts were hampered by recent dry weather and moderate winds fanning the flames .
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As they toured the country showing the fruits of seismic tomography, they fanned the flames of interest in this new technique.
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The work of the modern quantum chemist has helped to fan the flames of this debate.
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Widespread fires generate their own wind, which fan the flames into devastating firestorms.
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But the fact is that the very lack of evidence seems to fan the flames of suspicion.
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Meanwhile, Spong, who fanned the flames of the debate in 1988 when he ordained the Rev.
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In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, enlightened despotism, secularism, nationalism and liberalism had all fanned the flames .
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That should be enough time to fan the flames of an all-out, old-fashioned quarterback squabble.
flicker
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There are no sounds except the flickering of the flame and the hiss of some burning wood that has not thoroughly dried.
fuel
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But oxygen tanks fuelled the flames .
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The fatty ingredients fuelled the flames and damage was put a more than £1m.
go
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All the historical records have gone up in flames .
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And when that happens, the whole system goes down in flames .
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We know a city can go up in flames because of a burnt cake in Pudding Lane.
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Just one month later, the entire house went up in flames , and both Dark and his wife were killed.
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One of the Fellowship moved too close to the flames and a bull's mask went up in flames.
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Another time, the school on the next block goes up in flames on a summer evening.
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The whole town was going up in flames .
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The car then went up in flames from the diesel fuel that spilled from the Amtrak engine.
ignite
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Associated Press Cathy Freeman ignites the Olympic flame during the opening ceremony.
leap
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The faint hope he had offered shrivelled and died in the heat of the hungry, leaping flames .
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The sea leapt like flames , boats were piling up in the marinas.
lick
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Steam rises from the kettle and the pork chops sizzle, licked by flames from the dripping, igniting fat.
light
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His ring sparkled on her finger, lit by the flames of a fire in the grate.
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The night sky was lit by flames from burning cars, the smoky air stinging with tear gas.
quench
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I quenched the candle flame with my fingers and slid into the bed chamber.
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Edward pulls out the splinter and hugs her to his chest to quench the flame .
shoot
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Any competent social scientist could have shot them down in flames .
smother
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Office worker Bryan Johnson tore off his own shirt to smother the flames .
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Police officers also tried to smother the flames with their jackets as Mr Griffiths lay next to his car.
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Office worker Bryan Johnson managed to knock Mr Chittenden to the floor, tearing off his own shirt to smother the flames .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a flaming row/temper
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And this caused a flaming row at the school debating society.
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I was a girl in a flaming temper.
add fuel to the fire/flames
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It only added fuel to the fire.
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Once the process is under way, empire-building adds fuel to the fire, and more fat to the bureaucracy.
burst into flames/flame
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Dad Mark managed to carry her to safety before the alarm burst into flames.
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Directly ahead, a pair of stately old coconut trees burst into flame.
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Like a sheet of crepe paper, the wooden house burst into flames and burned to the ground in minutes.
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Several of the vehicles burst into flames, according to initial reports.
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The airliner struck the ground some 50 metres short of the runway, turned over and burst into flames.
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The bomb, thrown out of the Ford Cortina's passenger window, burst into flames in the road.
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There is just one drawback to their island paradise: every so often it bursts into flame beneath them.
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They had both burst into flames after the explosion, police said.
fan a fire/flame etc
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David Cottis, London At what point does breeze fan a flame rather than douse it?
naked light/flame/sword etc
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A very powerful naked light bulb hung from the office ceiling.
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Both men were armed, each carrying a naked sword and dirk.
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He is like a naked light.
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Obviously this is untrue - it is not the naked light that Blanche can not stand, it is the truth.
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She likes to cover up the truth like she covers over the naked light.
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She turned, all flaxen and pink and white, haloed by the naked light bulbs round the mirror.
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This gives a double meaning to Blanche's hatred of naked light.
pillar of dust/smoke/flame etc
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The incinerator became a roaring pillar of flame, its iron bars instantly glowing red hot.
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There was a pillar of smoke then, too.
quench a fire/flames
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Flames poured out of the windows.
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Natural gas burns with a bright blue flame .
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The room was dimly lit by the flame of a single candle.
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You can sterilize a needle by holding it in a flame .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He cupped his hand over his thing as if it were a flame that might blow out.
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In his imagination it burst into flames.
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Or watch a launch, the orange flames billowing and shrinking to a point in the sky before the sound hits.
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The arms of the dead warrior seemed to flex, moved by heat, twisted by the consuming flame .
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The ice-cold butt burned the skin of his palm like a flame .
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The sun sat on top of it like the flame on a black candle.
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We know a city can go up in flames because of a burnt cake in Pudding Lane.
II. verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a flaming row/temper
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And this caused a flaming row at the school debating society.
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I was a girl in a flaming temper.
naked light/flame/sword etc
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A very powerful naked light bulb hung from the office ceiling.
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Both men were armed, each carrying a naked sword and dirk.
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He is like a naked light.
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Obviously this is untrue - it is not the naked light that Blanche can not stand, it is the truth.
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She likes to cover up the truth like she covers over the naked light.
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She turned, all flaxen and pink and white, haloed by the naked light bulbs round the mirror.
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This gives a double meaning to Blanche's hatred of naked light.
pillar of dust/smoke/flame etc
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The incinerator became a roaring pillar of flame, its iron bars instantly glowing red hot.
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There was a pillar of smoke then, too.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Flaming your boss really isn't a good idea, however angry you are.
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Seeing the mockery in Johnny's eyes, Claire's cheeks flamed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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My ears flamed, my small dark hostile eyes were awash.
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My rifles flamed and roared in the Federals' faces.....
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She stared back at him, her cheeks flaming.
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This marble figure seems to flame and spiral up, surging, groaning like an earthquake, subsiding even as he rises.
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Those who ignore the above advice are likely to be flamed.