Start to burn or burst into flames.
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Examples for "ignite "
Examples for "ignite "
1 However, we must not do anything that would ignite a clan war.
2 In no specific order, here are 15 pictures to ignite your wanderlust.
3 Even a minuscule amount of allergen can immediately ignite another inflammatory response.
4 For an anxious moment it seemed as if neither engine would ignite .
5 In other words, I wantonly ignite barns that belong to other people.
1 But regular protests continue to erupt against unemployment, poverty and official corruption.
2 Read: Protests erupt in Soweto and JHB South, major traffic disruptions reported
3 The debate grew so heated that it appeared war could erupt again.
4 Similar funding conflicts are set to erupt at campuses across the UK.
5 It means that you know that something can erupt at any moment.
1 The plastic paper behind the stove is dangerous and might catch fire .
2 But Arendse appeared wary of allowing the smouldering issue to catch fire .
3 Despite Ford's progress, Lincoln has failed to catch fire with younger consumers.
4 Lithium-ion batteries can catch fire if they are involved in an impact.
5 They're just rocks that enter the atmosphere and catch fire under friction.
1 Suppose the whole should take fire to-night and burn to the ground.
2 Alcohol, ether, benzol, spirit of turpentine, and petroleum take fire on contact.
3 She was of a slow temper, however, and did not take fire .
4 Can a Man take fire into his Bosom and not be burnd?
5 Bittorf, at Manheim, saw his paper balloon take fire in the air!
1 A second one and you'll conflagrate .
2 The pod blew, its payload conflagrating in an apocalypse instant, and it plummetted in a smoke-described arc.
Get very angry and fly into a rage.
1 When that happens, two materials are brought together and they spontaneously combust .
2 My heart was a trip-hammer and I thought my lungs would combust .
3 I would spontaneously combust with enthusiasm every time I entered a classroom.
4 If I didn't have sex for another day, would I spontaneously combust ?
5 There was a risk this could cause the coal inside to combust .
6 More like she might combust if she didn't get away from him.
7 And when it breaks down, it can combust violently, experts say.
8 What had happened between them to make them combust like that?
9 Angelica Dellal looked as if she might spontaneously combust with indignation.
10 I could walk next to it without feeling like my shirt would combust .
11 Next, Roeg mixed the acting elements that would combust in this border zone.
12 Now just thinking about it made her feel ready to combust all over again.
13 Other kinds of manure can combust at far lower temperatures.
14 They would have to combust spectacularly to avoid that outcome.
15 Because none of them had made his body nearly combust when they'd kissed them.
16 More than a few look like they might spontaneously combust .
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