Sentence examples similar to set a match alight from inspiring English sources

But it was another defender who set the match alight with a marvellous goal in the sixth minute.

She helped set a motorbike alight, walking away with her hands aloft.

Bristol magistrates heard Stephen Farthing, 32, threw missiles at police and set a car alight.

Thirty-two people were arrested on Sunday night after people looted shops, vandalised cars and stores, and set a building alight.

One Commonwealth secretary general, in the 1970s and 1980s, did set a few things alight.

Another six people lost their lives when a shell struck near a bus stop, setting a vehicle alight.

I wouldn't be surprised if they set a couple of the caravans alight soon.

An unidentified woman set a makeshift flag, made of paper, alight outside the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham last year.

Iter's primary goal is to fix that problem by creating what they call a "burning" plasma, something that keeps going without the need for external heating, in the same way that a log fire keeps burning after it has initially been set alight by a match.

'What is lacking is the match to set the bonfire alight, or it may be the detonator to cause the dynamite to explode.'.

To make sure, small boys brought jugs of petrol and a crowd set the bodies alight.