Sentence examples for a flame was lit from inspiring English sources

The Chinese state news agency have said the explosion was due to negligence when a flame was lit in a dust-filled room.  .

Oliver Holt, Daily Mirror: "Before a new flame was lit in this magical London summer, the words of an Ian Dury song rang out around the Olympic Stadium last night.

"It was very cold and wet on the top of Snowdon but when the flame was lit it made it a bit warmer," said Calum.

Technically, the Vancouver 2010 opening ceremony began a few months before February 12th, when the Olympic flame was lit in Ancient Olympia, Greece.

The accident came just hours after the Olympic flame was lit in Greece, at the start of a 15-week journey that will culminate with the 5 August opening ceremony in Rio de Janeiro.

Exactly 30 years after the Olympic flame was lit in Sarajevo in 1984, the city was in again in flames.

That scandal played out before the flame was lit in Utah and, once competition began, doping became the problem.

When the flame was lit back in 1984 I was seven and lived just across from the Olympic stadium.

As the flame was lit on the Olympic torch in Rio, John Vidal looked at why the city found it so hard to clear up its waste.

"The Balkans," he said, "is where the flame was lit that ignited the Great War, and it is no exaggeration to say that if we do not get this right, it could lead to a confrontation from which the world might not recover".

The Scafell flame was lit at around 12 45 BST.