Sentence examples for lighted a match from inspiring English sources

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He lighted a match, but emergency workers arrived quickly and put out the fire.

Every now and then, I lighted a match to check the clock.

The prevailing view from the outside was that the locker room was a tinderbox and that Del Rio had lighted a match.

He sprayed a flammable substance on it, lighted a match, and whoosh -- merchandise in the storage area caught fire, the police said.

Can't a writer be conflicted?" When I read her essay, it had been 18 months since alcohol last lighted a match in my veins, but I had to admit she had a point.

An American Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing on Monday morning after a passenger lighted a match to disguise the scent of flatulence, the authorities said.

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Seriously, do not light a match.

Q. Best not to light a match in a stable.

He lit a match, dropped it in, but nothing happened.

She lit a match and watched it burn.

A few days before Christmas, an airline flight attendant spotted a passenger lighting a match.

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