set fire to

Idioms and Phrases

see set on fire .

Example Sentences

In 1637, colonial soldiers had surrounded a major Pequot settlement as Puritan leader John Mason “set fire to the village, which, owing to the strong wind blowing, was soon ablaze,” according to James Truslow Adams’ 1921 Pulitzer-winning “The Founding of New England”:

From Salon

The demonstrators then set fire to the house allegedly belonging to a police officer accused of killing a protester.

From BBC

“The Israelis are sending a very clear message that nowhere is safe,” Dorotea Gucciardo, who coordinates Glia’s medical missions to Gaza, told Salon days after strikes on the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital set fire to patients in tents.

From Salon

In Phillips' Gotham, Lee is a mental hospital patient who is admitted involuntarily because she set fire to her parents' apartment.

From Salon

The messages were sent around the time that Swedish anti-Islam activists set fire to copies of the Islamic holy book.

From BBC

Related Words

• burn
• flare up
• inflame
• kindle