Sentence examples similar to touch off fireworks from inspiring English sources

Flung pebbles touched off fireworks in the waves.

With the fire season 2 weeks old, Luna said fire crews are bracing for next week's Fourth of July holiday because of concerns that fireworks will touch off a fire in the tinder-dry county.

Fireworks marked the 10-second countdown in front of the buildings before the explosives were touched off.

For starters, they touch off international phenomena.

What could touch off a coup?

Now a request for street signs dedicating part of the road to the memory of a slain officer the police say has been too long overlooked is touching off the kind of fireworks once reserved for the Fourth of July.

When she held a party after the opening ceremony, fireworks outside her home touched off a blaze in one of the few wooded areas left around Athens.

Indoor fireworks displays like the one that touched off Thursday's nightclub fire in Rhode Island have become so common they are almost a routine spectacle at special events.

That touched off a chorus of howls.

The articles touched off demonstrations in Nigeria.

The book touched off an uproar.