Sentence examples for setting a house from inspiring English sources

He retaliated against those who crossed him, officials said, by setting a house and several cars on fire.

The settlers attacked the area around the Arab market, which is close to their main enclave, breaking car windows with iron bars, trying to smash the vendors' tables and setting a house on fire, the witnesses said.

PITTSBURGH, April 7 (Reuters) - Pennsylvania prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for a man accused of intentionally setting a house fire that killed a family of six last year, the district attorney said on Tuesday.

Abbott and Costello are also better than their average in something called Hold that Ghost (1941), the setting a house which appears haunted, but by gangsters rather than spirits.

Not doing so can lead to toxicity poisoning from the products or accidentally setting a house on fire with the use of torches.

But another legislative gambit of the new majority — setting a House vote on repeal of the health care law — illustrates the predicament Mr. Boehner is in.

He's like a man who set a house on fire asking for credit for pouring water on the smoking embers.

Two Long Island teenagers admitted in court yesterday that they set a house ablaze last July because Mexican immigrants were living there.

Adult fare also proved lucrative: The critically acclaimed "Book of Mormon" set a house record for the Eugene O'Neill Theater last week, grossing $1,014,228 - a significant achievement for a theater with just 1,066 seats.

The convicted men were part of a mob that set a house on fire in Ode village in Anand district, and prevented the occupants from escaping during the communal riots, the report says.

Why did William Spangler set a house on fire barely a week later, on Christmas Eve, then kill two of the volunteer firefighters who responded to it?