Sentence examples for to be torched from inspiring English sources

As Buckland says, "I've had some bad sushi, but I'm not calling for the Japanese trawler fleet to be torched".

They spend a little of their incomes on household insurance not because they think their homes are likely to be torched next week but because, if it happened, the results would be disastrous.

Expect more oil fields to be torched once the fighting begins.

It was re-built, only to be torched again during protests the following year.

The police approached and then they ran to save themselves, leaving the two to be torched in a metal coffin.

Alexander the Great suppressed a revolt in Thebes, Greece in 335 BC, after which he ordered the city to be torched and laid waste.

In some villages, homes were said to have been torched.

Three buses belonging to the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation were torched in the city early Thursday, although the arsonists asked passengers to alight before setting the buses on fire, a traffic officer said.

But to Lovejoy, it was as if the Constitution itself — and the order it was supposed to impose — had been torched along with McIntosh.

Another option would be last year's seventh-round pick, Jimmy Wilson, who is moving to safety after being torched as a fill-in cornerback.

In his three starts at Fenway last season, all pitching to Posada, Burnett was torched for 20 runs in 12 2/3 innings.