How to Use set a fire in a Sentence

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• Sanford, who then set a fire that grew into a large blaze, was killed at the scene.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2025
• Near the base of the cliff where the Buddhas once stood, some young men had dug a hole and set a fire to bake potatoes.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
• The man then allegedly set a fire in the home, police said, with smoke visible from the second floor.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 9 Aug. 2021
• Their warehouse flooded after vandals set a fire that tripped the sprinkler system.
  — Martin Kuz, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 May 2021
• The windows of the bank branch on the skyscraper’s first floor were smashed and someone set a fire was set on a desk inside the building.
  — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 2 June 2020
• The suspect began shooting with an assault rifle and then used gasoline to set a fire that grew into a large blaze.
  — Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2025
• Police say the man forcibly took keys from an unarmed security guard, fired shots in the building and set a fire in a stairwell.
  — Emma Tucker, CNN, 30 Jan. 2024
• Amid unrest after George Floyd’s death, someone set a fire in a Goodwill.
  — Daric L. Cottingham, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2021
• The Christmas day station attackers damaged equipment at each station and set a fire at one.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 27 Dec. 2022
• Authorities said Wimbish has a history of mental health issues and had in the past set a fire at his home.
  — Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2021
• Protesters threw fireworks and set a fire at the union building, and officers quickly declared a riot.
  — oregonlive, 15 Apr. 2021
• Investigators also found evidence that someone had tried to set a fire within the home.
  — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 21 Nov. 2023
• Protesters also set a fire in an office in the Justice Center, shared by the city and county.
  — oregonlive, 3 Oct. 2020
• Although the home had been vacant for less than a year, Cross later learned that squatters had accidentally set a fire.
  — Talis Shelbourne, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 July 2021
• Setting up the unit took about five minutes due in part to the straightforward instruction sheet that outlined how to set a fire and what precautions to take.
  — Renee Freemon Mulvihill, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Aug. 2022
• Earlier Wednesday morning, police said the same man set a fire at another home in Austin.
  — Julianna Duennes Russ, Austin American Statesman, 1 Apr. 2026
• Last week, protesters set a fire at the ancestral home of Khomeini himself, activists say .
  — Matthew Mulligan, NBC News, 26 Nov. 2022
• This was after Bynes was placed on a 5150 psychiatric hold that same year and set a fire in a neighbor's driveway.
  — Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2022
• This came after Bynes was placed on a 5150 psychiatric hold that same year and set a fire in a neighbor's driveway.
  — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2023
• On March 11, police were called back to the business complex because someone set a fire in a restroom in one of the buildings.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Mar. 2022
• The thought of dying from diabetes (her mother passed from complications related to the disease) and leaving him alone set a fire in her.
  — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 28 July 2021
• Gusts were ripping through the Santiam Canyon and the power lines in Gates fell, charged a metal fence and instantly set a fire.
  — Jake Thomas, oregonlive, 18 Sep. 2020
• Part of the training, as important as how to set a fire, is to show people how to be aware of their surroundings and to have plans in place should something unexpected happen.
  — Dennis Pillion | [email protected], al, 12 Feb. 2023
• Court documents say Jackson used a construction sign to break a glass door at the Target building and, once inside, set a fire on a counter in a mailroom.
  — Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2020
• An arsonist set a fire that damaged the front of the store and some of its interior, according to The Times of Israel.
  — Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 15 Aug. 2025
• The men cut a hole in part of a window grating with a saw before the theft, then set a fire in order to cut the power supply to streetlights outside the museum, prosecutors claimed.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 16 May 2023
• After a disagreement, a woman on Christmas Eve set a fire in an apartment that trapped and killed two people, authorities have alleged.
  — Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Feb. 2024
• Jackson used a construction sign to break through the glass doors of Target's corporate building and then intentionally set a fire on a counter inside the mailroom.
  — Andy Mannix, Star Tribune, 2 June 2021
• Wearing only blue boxer shorts and one black sock, a man climbed atop the roof of a Boyle Heights church Wednesday night and set a fire at the foot of a small cross, authorities said.
  — Melissa Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2021
• The three then joined others and went inside, where Jackson intentionally set a fire on a counter in the mailroom and Edwards added a liquid accelerant.
  — Paul Walsh, Star Tribune, 10 Dec. 2020