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Example sentences for "flared"

Lexicographically close words:
flapper; flappers; flapping; flaps; flare; flares; flaring; flash; flashed; flasher
  1. The candle burned down in its socket, the light flared up and died, and the nauseous stink of wick and tallow filled the room.

  2. Later, she was nettled to notice that he had utilized it in prosaic fashion, for that night no lights flared late from the casino.

  3. But she wanted to show off on the hill in front of Warburton Hall," flared Shirley, "and you all know how I made out at that.

  4. Dol Vincez, you just stop that nonsense," flared Dozia Dalton, stepping up to the fancy little door defiantly.

  5. I'm slaving away in your old camp from daylight till dark at work I despise, and you can't even speak decently to me," she flared up.

  6. She flared hot against the disparaging note, the unconcealed contempt Fyfe seemed to have for him.

  7. We collided there, so hard that when word of it got to my father's ears, he called me home and read the riot act so strong that I flared up and left.

  8. I'm not a mere pawn in your game yet," she flared hotly.

  9. It didn't abate as the swatch of light flared across the darkness and faded against the bright illumination of the planetary disc.

  10. A spot of light pulsed in his cheek and then flared rapidly over his face.

  11. My father's dislike flared into hatred because you worsted him when he discovered that he could not successfully defend the wrong against you and fell back upon sheer insult.

  12. Then the lurid clouds parted suddenly, revealing a deep hole, at the bottom of which flamed and flared the mysterious yellow-orange brilliance.

  13. The tiny bullets flared into little puff balls of flame against the space-suit of the Ganymedan.

  14. The Invincible's screen flared in defense and the ten great engines wailed in utter agony.

  15. The glass guarded him from the terrific blast of ultra-violet light that flared from the pool of shimmering molten metal, a terrible emanation that would have flayed a man's skin from his body within the space of seconds.

  16. There was a sudden light in the sick woman's eyes, an eager light that flared up and died away again.

  17. A puff of white smoke flared from her single gun and its dull roar waked the still beautiful waters of the Virginia harbor.

  18. As the rushing wall of sixteen thousand men emerged from the "Big Forest," through which they had worked their way along the crooked track of a rarely used road, the dust cloud flared in the sky with ominous menace.

  19. How she had flared up at Alison's objections!

  20. I flared up and said that I was the last person who was likely to care about his wife and child.

  21. The flame ran through it at once, and it flared up strongly.

  22. Fresh bundles were pushed forward beside it, and these, too, flared up with a shrill crackle of snapping canes and the roar of a fire fanned by a strong draught.

  23. Size smaller; color lighter; skull smaller, except least interorbital width and depth of auditory bullae which are greater; cutting edge of upper incisors narrower; nasals less flared distally.

  24. An unshaded electric light flared in a corner.

  25. With masculine thoughtlessness Emile had set the candle close beside the bed, where it flared full into Arithelli's eyes.

  26. In ten minutes the narrow trenches for cooking were dug out and in twenty places camp fires flared up simultaneously.

  27. Even the town's buildings flared up in bright yellow.

  28. And the candle flared wildly, leaped, and shook out.

  29. Red light flared in all the windows of the dining-room; shouts and groans and cursing poured out of them.

  30. It was more than hope that had flared up in his breast since he had entered Bram Johnson's cabin.

  31. The pine needles flared up, the flame caught the next bunch above, and then the next.

  32. The bunch of pine needles flared up for two or three seconds, and then went out, but the light was enough to show that for six or eight feet further in there was a smooth floor to the cave, paved with small stones.

  33. And with the three of us crouched there beside him, father and Mr. Goodloe bound them legally and in the name of God, just as the last flicker of strength flared up in Nickols' body.

  34. I'll never be there," I flared at him, then went on with my floundering.

  35. Then quite suddenly a tongue of fire flared above the trees and sank again.

  36. For a moment passion flared hot within him, only to fall again before her defenceless youth.

  37. Weird shadows hovered in the dusk background, and curious flickers of light shot here and there, as the ill-trimmed flame flared up, or suddenly sank.

  38. Dangeau's eyes sparkled; a longing for action flared suddenly up in him.

  39. I heard him move across the floor with the rapid step of one who knows his way well, and the next minute a gas-jet flared up in the steward's room, and I knew that the man the whole force was looking for had trapped himself.

  40. Sweetwater was still looking, when the lamp, which had been burning with considerable smoke, flared up and went out.

  41. Then the flames faded to dense blackness where only fitful images on the retina of Chet's staring eyes flared and waned, and ghostly voices seemed still whispering through the clamoring silence of the room.

  42. No desolate lava-flow, this; no thousand fires that flared and smoked from their fumeroles in the dark.

  43. Something flared up in his breast at this smile and began to spread over his veins in a hot wave.

  44. Far to our left the line of boats floated, undulating across the bay; the beacon in Boston flared out red as we rounded Fox Hill; the light on Mount Wh-d-m twinkled.

  45. The door opened to its full width; the candle flared in the draught of night wind, smoked, flickered, then burned steadily.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flared" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    deltoid; flaring; open; outstretched; splay; sprawling; spread; widespread