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set ablaze

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  1. set fire to; cause to start burning
    Lightening set fire to the forest

How To Use set ablaze In A Sentence

  • Truck after truck was set ablaze as the fire spread.
  • A second car belonging to their son was drenched in petrol but not set ablaze. The Sun
  • French police made more than 250 arrests after nearly 900 cars were set ablaze and nurseries and a school burned overnight.
  • Four shops and three small structures were set ablaze.
  • Up the fruit and booze content, add such goodies as stout, carrots and suet, and you have the Christmas pudding – the dense, almost-black ball of rich fruitiness which is carried to the Christmas table after the turkey dinner, and which, to the cheers of assembled friends and family is doused in hot brandy and set ablaze, flickering with a blue, almost transparent flame. Guest post: A British Christmas dinner! « Were rabbits
  • Truck after truck was set ablaze as the fire spread.
  • Thousands of extra police were drafted in as shops were looted, cars torched and buildings set ablaze. The Sun
  • The Lincoln incident happened during Evensong on Tuesday when a Victorian oak altar and a 40-year-old altar frontal were set ablaze in the Morning Chapel in the minster's north west corner.
  • Forests are sometimes set ablaze by lightning.
  • He really had no reason to be in this film, both as an actor and as a character, but his presence is always a welcome one, especially when he's a resurrected-by-Satan jerkhole that gets set ablaze with hellfire after a brief moment of redemption. New Year’s Eve Signals The ‘End Of Days’ In This Week’s Sick Day Stash » MTV Movies Blog
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