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The phrase "catching on fire" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when referring to an object that has lit on fire, and the fire is spreading quickly. For example: "I was terrified when I saw the curtains in my bedroom catching on fire."
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Hitters may leave the box under certain circumstances, including a wild pitch, a play on the bases, or catching on fire.
Farage understands this well, writing this week with glee about political volatility across the channel: "We may well have escaped from a building that is catching on fire".
"They had to keep pushing the paper back during the parade because the paper was hitting the mufflers of the floats and was almost catching on fire".
The man, who is in his 20s, was airlifted from Worthy Farm in Somerset on Monday evening after catching on fire.
Later, at dark, the neon pompoms would come — the big holiday displays at the foothills resorts, and the city-sponsored show on Sentinel Peak, which half the time had to be stopped due to the scrub catching on fire.
On Wednesday afternoon, the unmanned locomotive rolled for nearly two miles down a rarely used freight track at 15 miles per hour into an industrial section of Maspeth, smashing into cars and trucks before catching on fire.
These batteries are exploding and catching on fire.
Two USB burnouts in a row seems like a lot, but there are millions of devices out there not catching on fire.
Only four members of the reliability team took place in the AMA, and you can be damned sure that Google employs more than four people to keep their many millions of servers from catching on fire.
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That's why Wi-fi is catching on like a prairie fire.
Remember the catching-on-fire hoverboard?
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