Sentence examples for set it aflame from inspiring English sources
After four days of fighting, a Korean officer named Pak launched burning barges against its hull and set it aflame, forcing all aboard to throw themselves into the river, where they were captured by Korean fighters and either hacked to death at once or brought to shore for dismemberment by the jubilant crowds.
Even his attempt to set it aflame — a scenic coup — fails to do damage.
In a Gaithersburg, Md., bedroom last month, one rolled into a mattress and set it aflame.
The technicians built a false front on the house and, on the day, set it aflame.
For show, he poured some infused cognac into another beaker and set it aflame.
Followers of Mr. Coca barricaded the cellblock and set it aflame, the report said, "in the presence of the police".
No dousing the Christmas pudding in brandy and setting it aflame, however.
Mr. Trummer, who is 40 and Austrian born, also gained notice for occasionally pouring alcohol along the bar top and setting it aflame.
After a long wait, a Hellfire missile soared over the soldiers' position and slammed into the building, demolishing a wall on the top floor and setting it aflame.
We may never learn why the two men seen in a grainy video dumping the bag near a trash heap and setting it aflame chose such a strangely violent way of disposing of a dead dog and her unborn pups.
The bag was found by workers at the warehouse, at East 91st Street and Ditmas Avenue, on Monday, and they examined security footage and found images of men getting out of a van with a bag and setting it aflame, Mr. Hopman said.
