Sentence examples for set off a blaze from inspiring English sources
The fire recalled a similar disaster in Rhode Island in 2003, when a rock band's pyrotechnics set off a blaze that killed 100 people.
SHANGHAI — A fireworks blast set off a blaze in a restaurant and bar in eastern China on Saturday night, killing at least 15 people and injuring at least 22 others, according to state-run news outlets.
After twenty-three years of rule, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali left the country on January 14th, and Tunisia became the spark that set off a blaze of revolt across the Arab world.
But I have come to see George Wallace as a sort of Promethean figure in American cultural history -- let's not reduce him just to politics -- and when he stole the fire of race, he set off a blaze that couldn't be put out.
Although all three of the wounded men survived, the severity of their injuries and the fact that officers fired 11 shots set off a blaze of headlines and brought angry protests by civil rights leaders who said that racial profiling had been a common occurrence on New Jersey highways for years.
His arrival set off a blaze of sensational headlines, and while one news reporter derisively dubbed him "Israel's Monica Lewinsky," most of the coverage was sympathetic, portraying Mr. Cipel as an ambitious young man whose attempt to succeed in the United States fell victim to political lechery.
Al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf militants bombed another Superferry in Manila Bay in 2004, setting off a blaze that killed 116 people in south-east Asia's second-worst terrorist attack.
As usual, optimists are praying for rain, and pessimists are watching out anxiously for "dry lightning" storms, which they fear could set off a record blaze.In this section What on earth were they thinking?
Does a carpenter set off a bomb?
His proposal set off a fierce debate.
