Sentence examples for sets a fire from inspiring English sources

A spark sets a fire, and soon it has built into a blaze.

Who knows how or why a spark, ignited by a performance, sets a fire in a child?

You look like the biggest jerk if you're the agency who goes around saying don't set forest fires and one of your own sets a fire".

Still, under the right conditions -- a dry, windy day during a period of drought when someone in the woods sets a fire, either accidentally or intentionally -- a wildfire in the Pine Barrens could overwhelm the best efforts to suppress it, Mr. Brooks said.

While inside, I imagine that, rather than surrounded by mess and plastic toys, I live a life in which my children sit quietly at the table making tasteful cut-out woodland animals, where organic soaps sit tidily in ceramic dishes in the bathroom, while next door my husband sets a fire with a tasteful, clay-coloured kindling bucket at his side.

"Once a firefighter sets a fire, he [or she] can no longer be a firefighter," PoI said.

— Ed.], makes its debut today, along with HOT ISSUES, SET A FIRE, UPS AND DOWNS, DEPOSITOR and UNDERTOW.

"When I didn't play, that set a fire.

"Then they set a fire to force me out.

How to Set a Fire and Why, by Jesse Ball (Pantheon).

First, on a dare, he set a fire in a school toilet, she said.