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on fire

ADJECTIVE
  1. lighted up by or as by fire or flame
    forests set ablaze (or afire) by lightning
    even the car's tires were aflame
    candles alight on the tables
    a night aflare with fireworks
    houses on fire

How To Use on fire In A Sentence

  • Nowadays she heats her place with a cast-iron stove perched on firebricks in the living room, cooks with propane, and does her beadwork at night by the light of a kerosene lamp while listening to a battery-operated radio.
  • French authorities also confirmed that there was a vehicle containing around 100kg (220lb) of phenol - also known as carbolic acid - close to the site on fire. The Guardian World News
  • Investigations are not yet complete who exactly set the coach on fire.
  • *** Pharmaceuticals Sigma Pharmaceuticals said that it is likely to breach loan conditions with bankers after taking a charge of as much as 270 million Australian dollars ($253.4 million) from the A$900 million fire sale of its pharmaceutical division to South Africa's Aspen Pharmacare. Business Watch
  • A spark set the woods on fire.
  • Also off the hallway is a sitting room with an antique reproduction fireplace.
  • Apache helicopters pounded them with missiles, while US tanks poured cannon fire on the defeated and unresisting column.
  • Senator, his hair bristling out straight, his teeth set, his eye on fire, his whole expression sublimed by the ardor of battle. The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX
  • Many of the species native to California, such as the prickly chaparral, rely on fires to propagate.
  • From the time a fire first breaks out to flashover, when everything catches on fire, can take as little as three minutes.
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