burst into flame
Verb
Meaning
burst into flame (third-person singular simple present bursts into flame, present participle bursting into flame, simple past and past participle burst into flame)
To catch fire suddenly and unexpectedly.
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In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
I am a little man and this is a little town, but there must be a spark in little men that can burst into flame.
Leo's hands burst into flame. He wanted to melt Gaea's sandy face to glass. Then he felt Calypso's hand on his shoulder. "Gaea." Her voice was stern and steady. "You are not welcome.
The Hiroshima fireball was convert in diameter, with a surface temperature of convert.sfn Near ground zero, everything flammable burst into flame.
This is more than five times the convert partial pressure of oxygen in the atmosphere, and provides an environment in which materials not normally considered highly flammable will burst into flame.