Sentence examples for set ablaze to from inspiring English sources

Some have strategically placed tires on pathways, ready to be set ablaze to block the police; others stand guard at driveways entering the neighborhood with makeshift weapons.

Authorities in Indianapolis arrested two men yesterday on charges they took part in an attack in Newark on Sept. 2 in which three people were shot to death in an apartment that investigators say was then set ablaze to try to conceal the crime.

— By the time four city trucks were set ablaze next to Hemet City Hall last week, the police here had become familiar with their new life under siege.

The shop was set ablaze, again to the noisy approval of the crowd, though this, too, seemed scant retaliation against murderous thugs.

An oil refinery was set ablaze leading to the death of six workers and a reservoir also failed, killing a further four people.

In Calais, police fired tear gas around midday, about 150-200 migrands activistsisthrewrew stones, and three makeshift shelters were set ablaze, according to a Reuters photographer at the site.

Two apache attack helicopters hovered over the town, despite a thick pall of smoke from tyres set ablaze by Isis to try to obscure aerial views of the town.

It tells the story of the main UN warehouse in Gaza, a storage point for food and aid for a million Palestinians, and how it was hit repeatedly by Israeli artillery shells, some loaded with white phosphorous, during the Gaza war – how it was set ablaze and burnt to the ground.

Typically, these women and thousands like them have been depicted as victims of disputes over the ancient social custom of dowry and as symbols of the otherness of India, a place where lovely young brides are doused with kerosene and set ablaze for failing to satisfy the demands of their husbands' families for gold, cash and consumer goods that come as part of the marriage arrangement.

These new results support a long-since-dismissed idea that Iron Age fort walls were intentionally set ablaze in order to fortify the walls.

An empty trailer was one of the structures set ablaze yesterday, according to WAVY.