"spark a flame" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to starting a fire or figuratively to describe the beginning of a new passion, feeling, or conversation. For example: "The spark of his words ignited a flame of hope in my heart."
An accident – a spark, a flame – can raise a name from obscurity to renown or ignominy.
The cause of the fire, at 1150 Putnam Avenue in Bushwick, was not immediately known, but Deputy Chief Stephen Moro said that it was being treated as suspicious because it began in the stairwell, not a location where something like a stove or an electrical device would be likely to spark a flame by accident.
Injuries to key ruckman Matthew Leuenberger and ball-magnet Tom Rockliff won't help but this is a Lions home game under the national glare of Friday Night Football ™, so the occasion of Voss's 100th game as coach, and/or the still-brilliant Simon Black equaling his club's games record, should spark a flame.
Static electricity from wind-blown sand also can spark a flame.
But that lends Sensi, otherwise quite a systematic game of diagonal passes and long-range blasts into the snug-like sweet-spot of crossbar meeting post, a feeling of frenetic drama and clumsy panic, as deflections from upright to helplessly prone centre-back spread genuine fear through the defending player's ranks, and spark a flame of opportunity in their attacking counterpart.
But that lends Sensi, otherwise quite a systematic game of diagonal passes and long-range blasts into the snug-like sweet-spot of crossbar meeting post, a feeling of frenetic drama and clumsy panic, as deflections from upright to helplessly prone center-back spread genuine fear through the defending player's ranks, and spark a flame of opportunity in their attacking counterpart.
Bad wiring sparks a flame; the menagerie of spooky doll parts is engulfed.
Those words, uttered by a neighbour's son to my mother in 1955, sparked a flame in me that has burned brightly ever since.
I can only hope that I succeeded in sparking a flame, a desire to read again.
This generation has sparked a flame that was going to go out.
The faulty wiring sparked a flame that soon engulfed the entire 24-foot-tall, life-size Tyrannosaurus Rex.
