Sentence examples for lighted a fuse from inspiring English sources

Surveying the scene, he paused momentarily and then, as if someone had lighted a fuse underneath him, thrust his arms forward and began zipping around the room, the cow acting as his shield.

Corzine felt compelled to slash aid to local municipalities and to revoke property-tax rebates for families making more than $75,000 — decisions that lighted a fuse on the most combustible issue in New Jersey politics.

What is striking about the events in Shai-Tubeh is that they occurred well after the violence in Osh began, residents said, contradicting earlier suggestions that a few strategic attacks by agents provocateurs might have lighted a fuse on longstanding ethnic tensions.

Gravel shrugged his shoulders, made the device, and in court, on October 14th, with the Dean of Sciences at Laval present and crying out, "Don't miss your shot, Dr. Gravel!," the reluctant professor lighted a fuse with an alarm clock and a dry-cell battery.

They have lit a fuse.

Whatever Crockett thought he'd heard, it lit a fuse.

When insecurity, fear and anger are used to light a fuse, then an explosion is inevitable".

He then will light a fuse that snakes along the gunpowder.

The kindle caught and the spirit of his self-immolation lit a fuse across the region.

You just went, wow, like someone lit a fuse to something that was connected to a giant keg of dynamite.

Flight attendants and passengers restrained him after he tried to light a fuse protruding from his shoe, officials said.