Sentence examples for house torched from inspiring English sources
Sebastien Wenezoui, 32, a civil engineer, said he helped instigate the anti-balaka after his parents and brothers were killed by the Seleka and their house torched.
Days before the attack on Ansari, another man in Jharkhand was reportedly beaten and had his house torched after a cow carcass was found near his home.
Flashes of horror intrude into these calmer narrative waters: the apple- cheeked Serbian woman casually shot by Šehić's unit; the Bosnian comrade later castrated by Serbian paramilitaries; the sight of his childhood house torched, the hometown "a festival of ruins".
The eventual solution was drastic: Tangier was abandoned, the houses torched, the fortifications blown up.
There are no reliable opinion polls in Zimbabwe, not least because suspected dissidents are liable to see their houses torched.
Some gypsies blamed gadze prejudice, and there was plenty of it; the first use of CRISS had been to rebuild gypsy houses torched by their ubiquitous enemies.
There, they would tell their stories – of relatives shot by Kadyrov's troops, missing sons who popped out and never came back, of houses torched by masked gunmen in uniforms.
The suburbs were characterised by low land and real estate prices,1 with many houses torched or in disrepair.
Gradually, it's revealed that the Taylors have survived a notorious incident in the Boston suburb of Newton: as soon as the movers had dropped off the couple and their children at a newly rented home there, the house was torched.
Beitar's club house was torched last Friday, presumably by some of these angry supporters.
