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How to use wildfire in a sentence

21 example sentences · noun

Wildfire means a rapidly spreading fire, especially one occurring in a wildland area. Example: “There are lots of people with no homes after the wildfire.”

Examples of wildfire by meaning

nounSomething that acts or spreads quickly and uncontrollably.

  • With WiFi connectivity spreading faster than wildfire and a laptop or tablet in one’s bag, what’s the point of a mobile nowadays?2015 January 18, Monty Munford, “What’s the point of carrying a mobile phone nowadays?”, in The Daily Telegraph
  • “I started wearing it, and it was wildfire — everybody wanted one.”2022 December 9, Rachel Felder, “These Timex Dials Were Designed With a Jeweler’s Eye”, in The New York Times

More sentences with wildfire

  • There are lots of people with no homes after the wildfire.From the entry with
  • Make for the hills! It's a wildfire!From the entry make
  • The supply of timber to the region's mills was lower than expected this month, owing to transport problems posed by wildfires.From the entry supply
  • The virus spread like wildfire throughout the Internet.From the entry spread like wildfire
  • Wildfire Service, undertook a large-scale, 12-square-kilometre prescribed burn on Aq'am lands north of the St.2024 April 26, Corey Bullock, “Fear rekindled in Ktunaxa Nation community as fire season begins”, in CBC News. From the entry Aq'am
  • Crystal Easter comforts her dogs as they flee a wildfire in Spring Valley on Monday, August 6.2018 August 13, “Massive wildfires scorching California”, in CNN, archived from the original on 11 May 2026. From the entry Spring Valley
  • And through it all, Batmania raged like wildfire through the parched fields of mass culture.1989, Mark Cotta Vaz, Tales of the Dark Knight: Batman's First Fifty Years 1939-1989, New York: Ballantine Books, page 89. From the entry Batmania
  • The plant has spread like wildfire since.2024 November 13, Paul Bigland, “Much to admire... but pockets of neglect”, in RAIL, number 1022, page 49. From the entry spread like wildfire
  • Wildfire officials said Wednesday that the St.2023 July 19, Simon Little, “At least 7 homes lost, nearly 100 displaced as wildfire near Cranbrook grows”, in Global News. From the entry ʔaq'am
  • They had known nothing of woolen cloth, but now the popularity of obi made of imported grogram spread like wildfire.2001, Kikue Yamakawa, Kate Wildman Nakai, Women of the Mito Domain: Recollections of Samurai Family Life. From the entry obi
  • Take Jools Lebron, whose viral craze over her articulation of “very demure” made its way throughout the pop culture lexicon like wildfire.2026 March 9, Cyrus Veyssi, “In Defense of Influencers”, in TIME, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2026. From the entry articulation
  • The emerging trend for “coolcations” means that more tourists are heading to Scandinavia to avoid the Mediterranean’s searing temperatures, droughts and wildfires.2024 May 28, Rachel Dixon, “Be a better tourist! 28 ways to have a fantastic holiday – without infuriating the locals”, in The Guardian…. From the entry coolcation
  • Near the Aq’am First Nation in November, B.C.-based fire ecologist Bob Gray looks out at forests destroyed by a wildfire four months earlier.2024 January 8, Wendy Stueck, “Making fire your friend”, in The Globe and Mail. From the entry Aq'am
  • Their task was to carry out a prescribed burn--a carefully controlled, low-intensity fire that clears duff and deadwood, reducing the risk of a catastrophic wildfire.2019, Nicola Twilley, “Trailblazers”, in The New Yorker. From the entry duff
  • Though the sky is fogged with the wildfires south of this location, dulling the sun's piercing ultraviolet punishment, still, my mind is wandersome.2010, Sam Flakus, Dark Horse. From the entry wandersome
  • Under certain conditions, it seems, candida can change from its yeastlike, noninvasive state into a parasitic fungus that spreads like wildfire through the gut.1988 January 22, Robert McClory, “The Yeast of Our Problems”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry yeastlike
  • She is studying vegetation trajectories (what happens to both cultural and invasive plants) after different burn severities of wildfire alongside St'at'imc communities on the McKay Creek Wildfire.2024 February 26, “Healing the land after wildfires: Lessons from St'at'imc Nation”, in CBC Radio. From the entry St'at'imc
  • T̓ít̓q̓et, a community part of the St’át’imc Nation in B.C., has been severely affected by climate change and extreme weather events such as wildfires and heat events.2023, Climate Change, Health and Well-being: Medical Health Officer Report 2023, Interior Health, page 22. From the entry T̓ít̓q̓et
  • With wildfires raging across the West, climate change took center stage in the race for the White House on Monday as former Vice President Joseph R.2020 September 14, “As Trump Again Rejects Science, Biden Calls Him a ‘Climate Arsonist’”, in The New York Times, archived from the…. From the entry science

Meaning of wildfire

  1. noun A rapidly spreading fire, especially one occurring in a wildland area.
  2. noun Greek fire.
  3. noun A spreading disease of the skin, particularly erysipelas.

Full definition of wildfire

Questions about wildfire in a sentence

How do you use wildfire in a sentence?
Wildfire is used as a noun. For example: “There are lots of people with no homes after the wildfire.”
What is a short sentence with wildfire?
“Make for the hills! It's a wildfire!”
What does wildfire mean?
Wildfire means a rapidly spreading fire, especially one occurring in a wildland area.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wildfire (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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