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    Use "set afire" in a sentence

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    set afire


    1. Soon after that many homes, businesses and farms in our community will be set afire in the dark of night


    2. Others are covered with flammables and set afire (Nero was


    3. contents are set afire, rejected, and hurled back into the earth


    4. The Lord above knows what the compromising consequences would be to numbers of people, if some of our documents were seized or destroyed; and they might be, at any time, you know, for who can say that Paris is not set afire to-day, or sacked to-morrow! Now, a judicious selection from these with the least possible delay, and the burying of them, or otherwise getting of them out of harm's way, is within the power (without loss of precious time) of scarcely any one but myself, if any one


    5. Forty-five years earlier, when she’d been only six, her drunken father had in a fit of rage dropped her headfirst into a barrel of trash that he had set afire with a little kerosene


    6. This, with a great thunder, was set afire


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    Synonyms for "set afire"

    inflame light set fire to fire kindle