How To Use set on fire In A Sentence
- The two ships were brought into such a situation that the muzzles of their guns came in contact, and in this manner the action continued with the greatest fury for two hours, during which time Jones, who had far more men than his opponent, vainly attempted to board, and the "Serapis" was set on fire ten or twelve times. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
- Vehicles were hijacked, set on fire and rolled into police lines. Times, Sunday Times
- There, on the fore-deck of the prau, old Lingard found her under a heap of dead and dying pirates, and had her carried on the poop of the Flash before the Malay craft was set on fire and sent adrift. Almayer's Folly
- Defenseless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets: this is called pacification. Politics and the English Language
- After harvesting the stubble would be set on fire which also killed new mallee shoots.
- Hundreds of people later gathered, resulting in a five-hour stand-off against police as missiles were thrown, shops and businesses looted and public houses set on fire.
- It has since been targeted by vandals and has been set on fire on numerous occasions.
- All the books in the apartment had been piled up and set on fire, she said.
- Often the entire base of the bamboo clump is set on fire to facilitate the easy removal of dead bamboo.
- In the fall of the year this luxuriant growth of grass would be set on fire by the Indians or hunters, and especially when the wind was high would sweep resistlessly over the prairies, forming a spectacle, especially at night, that was at once magnificent and terrifying.
