She flared up at the sight of her husband walking with another woman.

Italy's National Fire Corps (Vigili del Fuoco) reported that air tankers from Canada helped fight more than 715 flare-ups in the past 24 hours.

There was a flare-up between local residents and state regulators.

We thought Mary and Tom were lost at sea but then we saw the distress flare.

The diplomatic squabble flared into an open war.

Flares are used to avoid heat-seeking missiles.

No one wished it so, but we are the first species to become a geophysical force, altering Earth's climate, a role previously reserved for tectonics, sun flares, and glacial cycles.

The protests flared into a civil war.

The International Ultraviolet Explorer provided information about physical conditions in the central regions of distant galaxies that may contain black holes. It also provided scientists with more knowledge of the physical conditions in very hot stars, the effect of solar winds on the atmospheres of the planets in our solar system, and the loss of mass from stars when stellar winds and flares occur.

She flared up with anger.