ablaze
adjective or adverb
1
: being on fire
2
: radiant with light or emotion
his face all ablaze with excitement—
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the entire block was ablaze by the time firefighters arrived
that night the ballroom, ablaze with light, looked very different from the curtained room it usually was by day
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RuPaul set the category ablaze by winning across eight consecutive years, until The Traitors' Cumming broke Ru's winning streak last year.
—EW.com, 15 July 2025
O’Brien showed us the property’s walled Renaissance garden, ablaze with deep red and burnished yellow blooms well into fall.
—Peter Terzian, Travel + Leisure, 12 July 2025
Fox News and similar corners of the internet were ablaze with myopic insistences that any inclusion of, or even nod to, this rather essential, commonplace, and well-known part of the Superman backstory made the new movie, somehow, another piece of woke Hollywood nonsense.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 8 July 2025
On May 30, Taylor Swift set the internet ablaze with news she's spent years working toward: Her entire catalog of work — the music, the music videos, the concert films and the album art — all belong to her.
—Bryan West, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
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EW.com, 15 July 2025
O’Brien showed us the property’s walled Renaissance garden, ablaze with deep red and burnished yellow blooms well into fall.
—Peter Terzian, Travel + Leisure, 12 July 2025
Fox News and similar corners of the internet were ablaze with myopic insistences that any inclusion of, or even nod to, this rather essential, commonplace, and well-known part of the Superman backstory made the new movie, somehow, another piece of woke Hollywood nonsense.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 8 July 2025
On May 30, Taylor Swift set the internet ablaze with news she's spent years working toward: Her entire catalog of work — the music, the music videos, the concert films and the album art — all belong to her.
—Bryan West, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for ablaze
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“Ablaze.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ablaze. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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ablaze
adjective1
: being on fire
2
: radiant with light or bright color
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