Sentence examples for to be alight from inspiring English sources

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In Iraq's southern Rumaila oil fields, which produce 60% of the country's oil, only nine out of 1,000 wells are reported to be alight.

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IMPORTANT: Your strap may still be alight at this point, ensure you extinguish it correctly.

(Agence France-Presse) TORCH A SYMBOL OF HOPE: The scene of Australia's worst mass murder, in which 35 people were shot to death, was alight with the Olympic flame yesterday.

"He lingered too long to ensure it was alight, and was himself overcome by fumes from the bitumen and sulfur he used to start the blaze".

A giant effigy of a naked David Cameron with a pig's head resting in his lap is to be set alight at the Lewes Bonfire night celebrations.

The felled timber and leaves are piled high in 1km rows as far as the eye can see, ready to be set alight.

Although France shows every sign of an economic boom, the feel-good factor will have to be kept alight for nine months before municipal elections test the real popularity of the government.

We learn, for instance, that it was considered a special favor and mercy to supply a heretic, about to be set alight, with a bag of gunpowder to tie around his neck so that he would die from the explosion before he died from the flames.

And then a child, doused with petrol and threatened to be set alight, gang-raped and forced to watch others suffer the same, digs deep down and somehow finds the extraordinary courage to stand up and say "this happened to me".

The call came in at 03:29 BST and the house at Tillsland in Coed Eva was said to be well alight.

Those that fall with brains intact need to be set alight, or else they'll soon enough stir and resume stalking you.

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