set fire's Usage Examples:

frequented by Henry David Thoreau who, together with Edward Hoar, accidentally set fire to the woods near the bay in April 1844, as later described in Thoreau's.

Caletor was killed by Ajax while trying to set fire to the ship of Protesilaus.

a samurai and carrying the lanterns, they walked in unchallenged, then set fire to the castle, allowing Rokkaku Yoshikata to make a successful assault.

Daegu subway fire broke out on 18 February 2003, when an arsonist set fire to a train in rush hour and killed nearly 200 people.

That night, British forces set fire to multiple government and military buildings, including the White House.

play during the men's match between SFR Yugoslavia and West Germany and set fire to the Yugoslav flag before being detained by security.

of civilians by the 1st SS Panzer Division, in which the German troops set fire to more than 350 houses and killed numerous villagers.

The Ragusans set fire to Šumet and Žrnovnica, so the Bosnian army retreated.

Iga-shu entered Kasagi castle in secret and set fire to a few of the priests' quarters.

They also set fire to outbuildings in various places inside the.

In August 2015, suspected Kurdistan Workers' Party militants set fire to three cement trucks associated with the dam construction site.

were saved from rape but not from death, as the Danes soon returned and set fire to the convent, killing Æbbe and her entire community.

George from giving a speech in the Music Hall in Aberdeen, and allegedly set fire to Burns Cottage in Alloway, Ayrshire.

Historia Augusta is written that at some point Scythians invaded Bithynia and set fire at the city and plundered it cruelly.

"dire consequences" if the newspapers continued to be printed and then set fire to bundles of newspapers.

sent out men to set fire to the city.

Nero sent out men to set fire to the city.

Synonyms:

campfire; grassfire; smudge; happening; conflagration; bonfire; brush fire; balefire; natural event; forest fire; inferno; smoulder; occurrence; backfire; smolder; prairie fire; occurrent;

Antonyms:

desensitise; desensitize; curse; bless; stand still;