Sentence examples for lighting a flare from inspiring English sources

It's like lighting a flare.

Police arrested five people for wearing masks, which is illegal, and one person for lighting a flare.

In olden days, being a football fan was about wearing an £800 coat on the terraces and going to Tranmere away and lighting a flare, and having weepy late-night conversations with your wife about how much you'd managed to spend on pies, beer and shouting in one calendar year.

Western Sydney Wanderers were under the same threat when their fans lit a flare during last weekend's Sydney derby.

Around day 14 I saw a ship, lit a flare and thought I'd been seen – but it just went right on by.

Though Lee lost in the final, he took down tournament favourite Jesus Gonzales of the United States en route, and in so doing lit a flare in the imagination of Steward that would have remarkable consequences.

What tended to happen is this: Someone would light a flare canister and hold it up in a heroic pose, there would be a small cheer from the crowd as if something had actually happened, and that person would then be instantly mobbed by a frantic phalanx of photographers trying to document something exciting.

His performance was roared on by hundreds of flag-waving Croatians among the 8,000 spectators, one lighting a red smoke flare in celebration.

A year later, after a finishing his first full season at Liverpool as the club's top scorer, he lit a global flare with THAT goal against Argentina in the 1998 World Cup.

The Cultural Olympiad's featured a whole range of different disciplines and practitioners from the entire spectrum of the arts, and as the two week Olympic event approaches, Britain will be firing off artworks across the country like flares lighting a path to the main attraction.

In the southern Brazilian college town of Santa Maria in 2013, a musician lit an outdoor flare inside the Kiss nightclub and started a fire that killed at least 241 people, investigators said.