How to Use on fire in a Sentence

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• Travis jerked open the door and slid on his butt down a wing that was on fire.
  — Gillian Telling, PEOPLE, 20 Sep. 2025
• Her neighbor’s home was on fire, dark smoke billowing from the house.
  — Dateline Nbc, NBC news, 22 July 2026
• The Saudi state news agency said one of its tankers had been hit and was on fire.
  — Emily Feng, NPR, 23 July 2026
• Within two days, hundreds of theaters had been called, and pre-sales were on fire.
  — Justine Bateman, SPIN, 19 Aug. 2026
• The crew at the scene tore down a bridge between that building and the one on fire in order to save it.
  — Darcie Moran, Freep.com, 10 Sep. 2026
• Its stickiness meant that no amount of water could stop a body from feeling as if on fire.
  — Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2026
• If a movie script didn’t light the world on fire, there was still a shot at ubiquity through the soundtrack.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2026
• When the sheriff's office arrived at the scene, the plane was on fire and sinking.
  — Abc News, ABC News, 23 July 2026
• Court records show that Willacy beat her, bound her and set her on fire before fleeing.
  — Pamela Colloff, ProPublica, 30 June 2026
• But the must-see band, currently on fire, were simply outshone.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2026
• Officials were not able to comment on what prompted the man to set himself on fire.
  — ABC News, 2 July 2026
• Crerand was two when his father, on fire watch at a shipyard, was hit and killed by a Luftwaffe bomb.
  — Andy Mitten, New York Times, 13 July 2026
• TeraWulf has been on fire, soaring more than 500% over the past year.
  — Fred Imbert, CNBC, 29 June 2026
• Sacramento Fire crews arrived to find a tree, fence and two houses on fire.
  — Cecilio Padilla, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026
• Sanchez was the only one home at the time his daughter told him on the phone that the apartment building was on fire.
  — Rashad Williams, CBS News, 7 Sep. 2026
• The military released a video showing the strike and the vessel on fire.
  — Zac Anderson, USA Today, 24 Aug. 2026
• The music was so good and Emma D’Arcy was, once again, on fire.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 6 July 2026
• For him, love was the one essential in a world perpetually on fire.
  — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 4 July 2026
• Latin America is on fire and many believe that growth will continue for years to come.
  — Jesse Kirshbaum, SPIN, 3 July 2026
• In the DreamBreaker, Dallas was on fire and opened up a huge lead.
  — Todd Boss, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
• Ali was about to set the animal on fire before Hotch intervened.
  — Ryan Gaydos Outkick, FOXNews.com, 24 Aug. 2026
• Little League Baseball is on fire even before the big days in Williamsport.
  — Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 11 Aug. 2026
• In the following days, looters tore through the streets, setting hundreds of buildings on fire.
  — Rozina Ali, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2026
• During evening blackouts, residents bang pots and pans, take to the streets to protest, or set the trash piling on the streets on fire.
  — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 6 July 2026
• An image released by the Coast ​Guard showed the seaplane on fire in the water at the crash site.
  — Joe Kottke, NBC news, 24 July 2026
• The northern part of the country is on fire, and the southern border is being overrun by migrants.
  — Britta Miller, The Washington Examiner, 1 Aug. 2026
• Firefighters first received a 911 call about a mattress on fire in the basement.
  — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 16 July 2026
• At the scene, officers found an RV trailer on fire, which police said the suspect had set ablaze.
  — Haley Parsley, Sacbee.com, 13 Sep. 2026
• Even smaller fireworks, like sparklers, burn at very high temperatures and can be hot enough to cause severe burns or set clothing on fire.
  — Parents, 2 July 2026
• The first flickers of life beamed images from the Bloomberg network of a New York building on fire.
  — Will Richmond, The Providence Journal, 11 Sep. 2026