Use "set fire to" in a sentence

1. Aduro, Adustum , to set fire to]

2. He'd set fire to the barn.

3. I set fire to the paper.

4. He set fire to the dry grass.

5. Someone had set fire to her car.

6. Protestors overturned cars and set fire to them.

7. They set fire to vehicles outside that building.

8. Flying sparks set fire to the long grass.

9. They said we might set fire to it.

10. The mob set fire to cars and buildings.

11. Rioters set fire to a whole row of stores.

12. Protesters set fire to a truck and two buses.

13. I believe the house was deliberately set fire to.

14. 27 Flying sparks set fire to the long grass.

15. A match will set fire to a large building. 

16. Got home and they had set fire to my crop.

17. The gas main exploded and set fire to the house.

18. He set fire to your data servers before he left.

19. She set fire to her house and then claimed insurance.

20. 16 A match will set fire to a large building. 

21. 10 A match will set fire to a large building. 

22. A spark from the machinery had set fire to some material.

23. 11 The arsonist confessed that he set fire to six businesses.

24. The police hasn't found out who set fire to the storehouse.

25. Note to self, do not set fire to the neighbor's flag.

26. Dry forward uses an igniter to set fire to the oil.

27. 2 A match will set fire to a large building. 

28. They set fire to the city and massacred all the inhabitants.

29. They lit a torch and set fire to the chapel's thatch.

30. He set fire to the city and all the villas around it."

31. She splashed some petrol onto the wood and set fire to it.

32. One night, in a drunken stupor, I set fire to our apartment.

33. They can pick off the sentries and set fire to the garrison.

34. The mob, my informant tells me, therefore set fire to the Thana.

35. Soldiers had chased the protesters into a warehouse and set fire to it.

36. Hitler's SS adjutant Otto Gunsche poured gasoline over them and set fire to them.

37. After a short fight, Opothleyahola's men set fire to the prairie grass and retreated.

38. They waited until the old man was asleep and set fire to his hut.

39. As he read Denver's name, Rich set fire to the envelope with a cigarette lighter.

40. Dumbstruck police and horrified crowds gatheredAs an elderly buddhist monk Set fire to himself today

41. They set buildings ablaze, exploded a tank of petrol, and set fire to the surrounding structures.

42. They set fire to plantation houses and drove the whites who were not killed into fortified cities.

43. 1180 Siege of Nara – the Taira set fire to temples and monasteries, to cut supplies to their rivals.

44. Nine days they lamented him; then they laid him on a lofty pyre and set fire to it.

45. The French had also set fire to the coal stocks to prevent the Germans from using the coal.

46. Then he watched a video and tried to set fire to the house before going back to Bath.

47. On the third night the rioters attacked the docks of the Pacific Steamship Company and set fire to a lumberyard.

48. Soon after being remanded to Pentonville Prison he was attacked by his psychotic cellmate who had set fire to the cell.

49. 30 On the third night the rioters attacked the docks of the Pacific Steamship Company and set fire to a lumberyard.

50. He had obviously told the servants that he had accidentally set fire to his room by knocking over a lighted candle.

51. 16 Soon after being remanded to Pentonville Prison he was attacked by his psychotic cellmate who had set fire to the cell.

52. Betine (third-person singular simple present betines, present participle betining, simple past and past participle Betined) (transitive, obsolete) To set fire to.

53. Demonstrators climbed the compound wall, set fire to the Consul's residence, and smashed their way through the outer door of the Consulate.

54. Wednesday saw a US Coast Guard crew set fire to part of the oil slick in an attempt to save environmentally-sensitive wetlands.

55. Iraqi forces deliberately set fire to some 600 oil wells, transforming Kuwait “into an apocalyptic vision of hell,” as a European newspaper described it.

56. Within half an hour, Matt spray-painted a bedroom wall, tried to set fire to the garage, and attempted to hang himself in the attic.

57. The heat from the explosion set fire to the forest below it, and then the shock wave came down and knocked down trees for hundreds of square miles.

58. The heat from the explosion set fire to the forest below it, and then the shock wave came down and knocked down trees for hundreds of square miles, okay?

59. Forming a testudo—the devise of locking their shields over their heads to protect themselves—the Roman soldiers undermined the wall and attempted to set fire to the gate.

60. An Australian nudist who tried to set fire to what he thought was a deadly funnel web spider's nest ended up with badly burned buttocks, emergency officials said Monday.

61. Before making the decision the row player can, in view of the column player, choose to set fire to 2 points making the game Burned pictured to the right.

62. Hours later, the underprivileged North London neighborhood erupted into violence, as rioters attacked police cars, smashed windows and set fire to a double-decker bus and a carpet store.

63. The buildings were mostly wooden, and the bombs —napalm and new incendiary devices containing magnesium and jellied gasoline— set fire to the overcrowded downtown area, killing more than 77,000 people.

64. After moving to Belfast in 1970, we learned that a petrol bomb had, in fact, set fire to the paint store and that our former apartment block had burned down that time.

65. Strebel, the ethnic German who had been installed in the farmhouse built in place of the camp's original bakery using bricks from the gas chambers, set fire to the building and fled to avoid capture.

66. 18 He made a point of going to the NRA's annual convention last month, where he spoke movingly of a 74-year-old woman who defended her home from a marauder who threatened to set fire to her garage.

67. On the same day, Kurdish People’s Protection Unit fighters allegedly set fire to houses in the predominantly Arab villages of Mabrouka, Abo el-Shakhat, Raj’an and Raj’iya in Hasakah governorate, reportedly accusing the inhabitants of having links to ISIL.

68. Did you know? Did you know? Adust comes from Latin Adustus, the past participle of "adurere" ("to set fire to"), a verb formed from the Latin prefix ad-and the verb "urere" ("to burn")