How to use in-sentence of “set fire to”:
+ Around 8:20pm members of a crowd waiting to speak to a police officer set fire to two police cars.
+ On 20th/21st September and 19th October 1647 glowing cannonballs set fire to the city, 365 houses got razed.
+ They then went to the Back Creek diggings and set fire to more tents.
+ On 30 October 2014, some protesters set fire to the parliament.
+ They set fire to Boston Bruins flags, overturned and set fire to two vehicles in front of the main Canada Post headquarters.
+ In 1997, when he was 12 years old, Shabazz set fire to the apartment of his grandmother, Betty Shabazz, causing her death.
+ He killed the hostage and then set fire to the house.
Example sentences of “set fire to”:
+ Hall set fire to Morriss’s shop and burned it down.
+ On August 15, 1914, while Wright was working in Chicago, Julian Carlton, a male servant from Barbados who had been hired several months earlier, set fire to the living room of Taliesin and murdered seven people with an axe as the fire burned.
+ Kenly’s force tried to set fire to the river bridges as they retreated but the fires were quickly put out.
+ Pyromaniacs set fire to relieve stress and it gives them pleasure and relief.
+ The police set fire to the hotel.
+ I will prepare the other bull and put it on the wood but not set fire to it.
+ Pyromaniacs frequently set fire to things.
+ Another story says that Adelaide died of her burns after stepping on a match that set fire to her clothes.
+ Let them choose one for themselves, and let them cut it into pieces and put it on the wood but not set fire to it.
+ At 2.30pm, the police set fire to the building to try and make the rest of the Kelly Gang leave the building.
+ Hall set fire to Morriss's shop and burned it down.
+ On August 15, 1914, while Wright was working in Chicago, Julian Carlton, a male servant from Barbados who had been hired several months earlier, set fire to the living room of Taliesin and murdered seven people with an axe as the fire burned.
+ Kenly's force tried to set fire to the river bridges as they retreated but the fires were quickly put out.