Sentence examples for set a match from inspiring English sources

So to signal their position, someone set a match to a blanket.

In 2006, two years after recovering from Stage 4 cancer, Mr. Douglas set a match to a pile of dead leaves he had doused with gasoline, setting off an explosion that sent him flying.

But just because "Good People" is about South Boston, a site notorious for racial strife, doesn't mean that Mr. Lindsay-Abaire is going to set a match to working-class prejudices.

But yes, the N.C.A.A. has taken that relatively simple blueprint, mixed it with its usual combination of overwhelmed enforcement staff and existential ennui, thrown in a little potential misconduct by using a lawyer employed by Shapiro, set a match to it and now we can all have a weenie roast over the bonfire.

Deep-rooted racism that hasn't been addressed is sitting there, permeating, and he just set a match to it.

Then set a match to the paper (in a safe place, of course) and watch those tired, old stories go up in flames.

"But in this environment, an accident is going to be like setting a match to a tinderbox".

"It was like setting a match to gasoline," said Kim Dae-in, president of the Good Law, a civic group that monitors the justice system.

In the second match, Hutton and Washbrook set a new Test match record opening partnership.

So it looks as if it might take some ingenuity to set up a match.

Dallas attacked Ziggler as Miz ran away to set up a match between the two.