Sentence examples for fire touching from inspiring English sources

As police swarmed the area, the remaining attackers opened fire, touching off a 15-minute gun battle that left two assailants dead, Karnavian said.

SIDI BOUZID, Tunisia — It is hard to say for sure who took down the portrait of the revolution's most famous martyr, Mohamed Bouazizi, from its perch atop a garish gold statue on the street where he set himself on fire, touching off a season of revolt across the Arab world.

Their shapes, colors and surfaces are altered in the kiln, depending on how the fire touches them.

Many hundreds of thousands of houses were either shaken down or burned in the ensuing fire touched off by the quake.

(They play the piece, too, on the ST-X Ensemble's latest Xenakis album). As in "N'shima," but in a tighter way, fire touched ice.

The explosion, along with a fire touched off by rising temperatures in spent fuel rods stored in reactor 4, led to the release of higher levels of radiation from the plant.

Explosions resulting from the buildup of pressurized hydrogen gas in the outer containment buildings enclosing reactors 1, 2, and 3, along with a fire touched off by rising temperatures in spent fuel rods stored in reactor 4, led to the release of significant levels of radiation from the facility in the days and weeks following the earthquake.

In real terms, however, combustion occurs only concomitantly when fire touches cotton and is not connected to this event.

The fire, touched off by lightning, blackened 15,000 acres, nearly the entire watershed.

The Deauville Beach Club, famed Santa Monica oceanfront landmark, was destroyed Sunday afternoon in a spectacular, wind-whipped fire touched off by an unidentified arsonist.

Do not let fire touch the meat, or it'll leave black soot on it.