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US
/ˈɑɹsənəst, ˈɑɹsənɪst/
]
[ UK /ˈɑːsənˌɪst/ ]
[ UK /ˈɑːsənˌɪst/ ]
NOUN
- a criminal who illegally sets fire to property
How To Use arsonist In A Sentence
- Arsonists torched a town-centre bar, causing residents in nearby houses to flee in terror.
- AN arsonist killed 47 people in a fire on a rush-hour bus. The Sun
- Charlotte Brontë's novel is not very different from typical gothic thrillers - everything from a sadistic schoolmaster to the arsonist madwoman in the attic.
- And Lou is certainly not going to be the first to jump to the defence of the arsonists, whoever they may be.
- Many if not most of the arsonists appeared to have started big fires inadvertently with small fires.
- AN arsonist who set himself ablaze as he tried to petrol bomb a family was jailed for six years. The Sun
- The national press has been pushing stories about arsonist and pyromaniacs and the need to instil harsher penalties.
- I did not find even one case that dealt with the sentencing of a female serial arsonist.
- A stark warning was issued this week when a mother and her baby were trapped in their burning home after arsonists torched their only escape route.
- The press has been quick to condemn arsonists for the fires raging in New South Wales in Australia.