noun
definition
A fire whose intensity is greatly increased by inrushing winds.
definition
An intense or violent altercation.
Examples of firestorm in a Sentence
The Webb stories were hard to ignore, for they had ignited a firestorm.
So just as an especially upbeat coworker can influence a positive reaction in his or her coworkers, an angry employee can set off a firestorm of bad energy.
It is only intended as a record of what happened - last time firestorm was run for diagnostic purposes.
It essentially tells firestorm + to daemonize and send all diagnostic messages to a log file.
Spokesman Mark Almond said only Labor's overwhelming victory prevented a firestorm of protests against voter fraud.
The British bomb Hamburg causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians.
The greatest danger was, we were told, the ensuing firestorm.
Any thoughts on NSA (the National Security Administration, whose domestic eavesdropping program has provoked a political firestorm )?
His case remains at the center of a national firestorm on the death penalty.
The media firestorm over the Runnymede Trust's report on multi-ethnic Britain broke just before we met to plan the contents.
Jennifer Beals' look in Flashdance set off a firestorm of shirts that looked as if wearers chose the wrong size.
She really alarmed the public with her racy, explicit book Sex, which was released in the midst of a media firestorm.