Sentence examples for using it to light from inspiring English sources

On Sundays through Dec. 13, and on Thanksgiving Day, the museum will also present "Soil to Oil," a workshop in producing olive oil and using it to light a Hanukkah menorah.

He could hardly have imagined, as he was using it to light a fire or hack a carcass apart, that his descendants would one day promote that kind of inventive step through patents.

In the end of the video, Madonna frantically drives out of the runway into the amused audience, and pull a hand grenade with her teeth and then throws it to George W. Bush, and the video ends with him using it to light up his cigar.

By the time it reaches the Chinese capital, the giant Bic will have been fondled by no fewer than 21,880 different individuals – even if only one of them had used it to light a fag, it would've proved more useful.

You could put it out and eat it, or use it to light your cigarette.

Muhammad Ali used it to light the flame in the Olympic stadium.

Best scene: in a bar one woman takes a cigarette from the mouth of another, uses it to light her own and puts it back.

After the Armistice, the torch of progress passes to a painted girl with bobbed hair, who uses it to light her cigarettes.

When Thomas Carlyle sent The History of the French Revolution to his friend John Stuart Mill to read, Mill's housemaid, mistaking it for waste paper, used it to light a fire.

The ghostly glow later became known as "foxfire", probably from the Old French word fois meaning "false", and the phenomenon appeared in many works of literature, including The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn when Tom Sawyer used it to light up a tunnel.

In the late 18th century William Murdoch, a Scottish engineer, used it to light his house, but it did not catch on until some decades later when it became popular for illuminating homes and streets, replacing flickering candles.