Sentence examples for tree ignites from inspiring English sources

(A video on the group's Web site shows how quickly a dry tree ignites compared to a well-watered one. Go to nfpa.org, search for "Christmas tree fire," click on the first link on the next page and scroll halfway down).

Mr. and Mrs. Morales were awake when the fire started, apparently when a lighted candle rolled off a table and under the Christmas tree, igniting it.

Either lightning or power lines downed by a fallen tree ignited a brief fire in a gas main on Harrontown Road in Princeton Borough, but caused no injuries or interruption in service, he said.

The weather must be dry enough for brush, dead wood and thickets of stunted pine trees to ignite, and there must be enough wind to spread the flames.

A Christmas tree fire apparently ignited by a candle roared through an apartment in Washington Heights late Friday night, trapping a family of four between a wall of flames and padlocked window gates over a fire escape.

We sit together in the darkness beneath ancient trees, as sunlight ignites the canopy far above.

The understory ignites trees, and wind is sweeping the fire from treetop-to-treetop in 300-foot walls of flame.

The first bomb ignited every tree and shrub.

"They say an open flame from the candle somehow ignited the tree.

The dammar batu tree provided wood that ignited easily, but "the burning drops that fall like stars from these torches" caused severe ulcerations when they landed on someone's skin, "which often happens to slaves who carry them".

The rocket completely ignited the tree, which then rained fire on passerbys below.