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How to use set alight in a sentence

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A fairy cake was dipped into liquid oxygen and then set alight to show how much energy, and therefore calories, it contained.
A classroom was trashed and walls were daubed with graffiti spray before the wooden library door was set alight.
It had been spotted by a member of the public after it was set alight and abandoned shortly before midnight on Wednesday.
It was thought that a candle had fallen over and set alight the paperwork in an office in the garage.
Cheating reached such depths that a pillar box was set alight in an attempt to destroy completed ballot papers, she said.
A pillar box was set alight in the Washwood Heath ward, apparently to destroy postal votes.
The Vauxhall was driven into a crash barrier made up of the tyres and either went on fire or was set alight.
Among the dead were seven people trapped in houses set alight when a firecracker ignited a stack of fireworks.
Petrol had been poured through the letterbox, said a spokesman for the fire service, and was then set alight.
The appeal follows a recent spate of vandalism where bins have been set alight, plant pots have been kicked over and garden furniture damaged.
Years later he would confess among his past sins the desire to set alight the house with his mother and stepfather in it.
And as soon as it's dumped, it's usually set alight, sending smoke into their houses.
A burning car exploded and shattered the front room window of a house in Rawcliffe Avenue, Breightmet, after being set alight early today.
Rommel ordered houses upstream of the crossing point to be set alight in order to provide a smoke-screen.
The fire in the bucket set alight the sundeck and quickly spread to the rear of the house.
About 5.00 am the Paschal Fire will be set alight and it will be blazing brightly in the sky as people file up for the 6.00m Mass.
Oh good I thought, but apparently I slept through the car being set alight, the firemen coming and a tow truck.
A sub-standard home is scheduled to be set alight by fire crews, then demolished by a digger.
The Scout Group's base, in was completely gutted by fire after it was deliberately set alight last night.
Cars were also set alight close to Leinster House, the Irish Parliament Buildings, amid heightening violence.
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She set alight to the bower-aloft And it burned up speedily, And her good love and her great heart Might all with eyen see.
They will scour the jungle for him when he is far away, and we and our children must run when the grass is set alight.
Vali's corpse is borne aloft by fellow monkeys in a palanquin which is then placed on the funeral pyre and set alight.
A HOMELESS man was beaten, stabbed 100 times, and dumped in a whee lie bin which was set alight before he was left in a stream to die.
Ruth Whitton, 68, was killed when petrol was poured through the letter box of her home in Baglan, South Wales, and set alight.
He set alight an unsent letter to his ex-partner the night before he was due to be discharged from the unit, Teesside Crown Court heard.
A FIREBUG was being hunted last night after an empty house was set alight just weeks after an pounds 85,000 revamp following an earlier blaze.
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