Sentence examples for lighting a flame from inspiring English sources

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And lighting a flame and talking about the future.

For decades, Orthodox Jews trudged through their houses in a pre-Sabbath ritual of turning off home security systems, taping down the button that turns on the light inside the refrigerator when the door is opened, and lighting a flame to leave burning on the stove so food can be heated.

3. Common sense will tell you that sooner or later, the person who you are holding a candle for (is that even the expression? lighting a flame for? whatever) will eventually start dating someone else.

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Their stories may have lit a flame in Williams, but they only smoulder here.

Fire investigators said they found an informant who said Mr. Trummer had yet again lighted a flame at the bar.

That was when Mr. Brooks, by his own admission, kicked in the Dawsons' front door, splashed a pickle jar full of gasoline on the stairs, and lighted a flame.

If you are predisposed to distrust big business and the bureaucrats who regulate it, then "Gasland," a soberly muckracking film about the health and environmental dangers of the current nationwide rush to drill for natural gas, will light a flame in you.

I wanted to light a flame, to warm my body against the heat of a real woman's naked form, to worship the sun-god of the sex-flow – and all you could think of to do was beg me hysterically to desist!

President Paul Kagame and Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, lit a flame at the Kigali genocide memorial centre, which estimates that more than 1 million Rwandans perished in three months of machete and gunfire attacks, mostly by extremist Hutus on the country's minority Tutsi population.

The preparations for the Paralympics continue next Wednesday when a group of scouts will light a flame at the top of Snowdon to begin a torch relay for the Games.

It is also acceptable to simply light a flame and shout the phrase.

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