View synonyms for set on fire

set on fire

Cause to become excited, as in The music set the audience on fire . Also see catch fire ; set the world on fire .
Also, set fire to . Cause to ignite and burn, as in The drought and high wind combined to set the woods on fire . [c. 1400]

Discover More

Example Sentences

Many homes of Alawites were looted and then set on fire in different areas, two residents of Syria’s coastal region told the AP from their hideouts.

From Los Angeles Times

The violence - the deadliest the city had seen in decades - stretched on for days, with hundreds of homes and shops set on fire by violent mobs.

From BBC

A funeral home in the same area which contains a chapel was also set on fire at around 10:00, but no one was in the building.

From BBC

The discovery came just a week after a childcare centre near a Jewish school and synagogue in Sydney was set on fire and antisemitic graffiti was seen on its wall.

From BBC

"There's only so many times that I was going to go through every fall of worrying about what is going to set on fire, if I was going to lose a house."

From BBC

Related Words

Browse