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.
• 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.
• 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
• 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.