Sentence examples for fire shops from inspiring English sources

Mosa'ab Elshamy, another Cairene blogger and activist who played a role in the protest movement in Egypt, took a similar view of what was happening in London, writing on Twitter: Buildings are on fire, shops are being looted while many "activists" on my timeline are cheering on, calling it a revolution.

Londoners woke to scenes of chaos as buildings had been gutted by fire, shops smashed by looters and streets littered with missiles used to pelt riot officers.

Video images of the scene showed at least four cars on fire, shop windows shattered and smoke rising above the neighborhood, where there are several government offices.

Shots were fired, shops looted and at least a dozen buildings set alight with firefighters also targeted.

Mobs also set fire to shops and trucks on a highway at Bhavnagar.

In Quetta, in western Pakistan, thousands of marchers chanted anti-American slogans and set fire to shops and cinemas.

Soldiers set fire to shops and houses this week in their latest attempt to crush Aceh's separatist guerrillas and prevent the province from breaking away.

State television showed images of rioters throwing rocks at police, smashing buses and setting fire to shops and cars, as well as bystanders holding faces streaming with blood.

But tonight, in the southern town of Bitola, home to three of the soldiers killed in the ambush, crowds of Slavs set fire to shops and other property belonging to ethnic Albanians.

The bombing at his funeral on Friday afternoon was followed by a riot in which a mob set fire to shops and vehicles and pelted police officers with rocks.

With his government jolted by the scenes of young people looting and setting fire to shops, warehouses, vehicles and police stations, he spoke with an angry vehemence that conveyed a sense that his government had settled on an unyielding crackdown, shorn of the kind of exculpatory language that British politicians have often used when confronted with youth disorder.