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How to use set ablaze in a sentence

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Several other businesses, including a chemist which was looted and set ablaze, were attacked along nearby streets.
The fire crew had been called to the woodland at 9.25 pm following reports of rubbish and debris being piled up and set ablaze.
French police made more than 250 arrests after nearly 900 cars were set ablaze and nurseries and a school burned overnight.
Dozens of town and cities were affected with nearly 9,000 cars set ablaze and more than 3,000 people arrested.
On Friday night 502 vehicles were set ablaze, the highest total for three days, and 206 people were arrested.
The perimeter fence was also set ablaze, windows smashed, plants destroyed and buildings daubed with graffiti.
He told Newswatch that the present war started because restive Ijaw youths attacked and set ablaze six of the Itsekiri's riverine villages.
I'll be making trips to the shop for firelighters and boxes of briquettes to set ablaze.
No charges were laid against them, as they could all account for their whereabouts the night Seecharan was set ablaze.
Well-intentioned U.N. officials had to run from their cars, which were then looted and set ablaze.
Chessington Library was set ablaze with the result that the main part of the library is unusable due to the roof being unsafe.
Two of the vehicles were set ablaze in the attack while the third vehicle managed to escape.
The church is being renovated after having been set ablaze during the 1999-2002 riots.
Nearly 10,000 cars were set ablaze with arson attacks against schools, police stations, gymnasiums, shops and businesses in poor suburbs across the country.
During the night of 9 January 2010, the Protestant church of Tizi-Ouzou was set ablaze.
Entire forests might be set ablaze by the thermal radiation of a high-altitude nuclear blast.
There is much inflammable matter all around us, subject to being set ablaze by people who are governed by emotion and not by reason.
Only 45 per cent of the total area normally consumed was set ablaze by wildfires.
As the cross is secured, the youngsters heap the combustible material around the pole, and it is set ablaze by the man to last marry in the village.
Our hearts should be set ablaze by this boundless mercy and selfless generosity.
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A FORMER policeman who set ablaze tyres, a water tank and plastic pipes has been jailed for two years.
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