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How to use on fire in a sentence

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Elegantly dressed models from Bangalore set the ramp on fire with their enticing catwalk.
His wife smelt something burning and went to investigate, only to find him in the act of now setting the room on fire.
As the blaze raged on fire chiefs decided it was too dangerous to tackle directly.
If it is partly the aim of a literary festival to enthuse new, young readers, these two readings don't look like setting them on fire.
When Dickinson glanced rearward he saw a Japanese plane on fire and losing altitude and speed.
They started on fire and an accurate cross kick from scrum half Barry Corbett put right winger Jon Cole in for an early unconverted try.
Defoe is a match winner and is on fire following his first international goal for England.
But sometimes, as I said, you do find someone decent to chat with, and you get on like a house on fire.
And I was half expecting everyone to be their normal selves, and instantly get along like a house on fire.
The two of them had got on like a house on fire though, as they shared the same sense of humour, though they didn't have much else in common.
It is possible to redistribute land to the landless without setting the country on fire.
Often the entire base of the bamboo clump is set on fire to facilitate the easy removal of dead bamboo.
This is the latest in a spate of vandal attacks on fire crews and buses in the area.
On June 10, 1991, the University's mink farm was set on fire after a timed incendiary device was detonated.
Word is now that they're lighting buildings on fire, but I can't confirm that.
He feels like his body is ripping apart, like he's on fire from the inside out.
And so we poured gas down every cavernous hole we found, and then exploded them with torches, setting the caves on fire like raw infernos.
It was something more appealing than long-legged, lissome damsels setting the catwalk on fire.
Property and even human beings were randomly set on fire and shops looted during the violence.
The crowd was literally on fire, as couples jived as if there was no tomorrow.
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Examples from Classical Literature
All I ever cared for in you was your devilry, and your eyes that used to set me all on fire with love.
Both the dhows were set on fire, that they might not fall into the hands of the Arabs.
Jupiter punished his defiance by setting him on fire with lightning on the scaling ladder, and he was burnt to death.
It was apparent, therefore, that the secretaire had been set on fire from below.
Some seem to think that because the world is on fire the time is ripe for an anti-smoking crusade.
In the mean time, the storehouse, and everything the yard contained which was burnable, was on fire.
There is a stone which is of all the hardest and the chillest, but when once set on fire it is unquenchable.
It was then placed in a dish and set on fire, and the residue that remained was the alcahest.
Several times, also, she had been on fire from the wadding which came blazing on board.
The Indians had forded the stream about the time the prairie was set on fire.
Several dug-outs were bombed, and in some cases set on fire, one being blown up by the Royal Engineers with an ammonal tube.
The year following is the year in which the temple of Athena, in Phocaea, was struck by lightning and set on fire.
Just my monocycle got hot an' caught on fire, an' then a ship busted out in flames an' went down.
The castle is taken and on fire, the seneschal is slain, and there is nought left for us.
Then, being apparently dead, kerosene was poured upon him, cottonseed hulls placed beneath him and set on fire.
Only her brain seemed on fire, so pitilessly, so horribly alive had it become.
During that time she had been twice on fire in her fore-chains and in her forecastle.
While passing, our gunner made a shot at one of the boats that was unfired, which struck her and set her on fire.
Parboil and put on fire in cold water with one carrot, one onion, a bouquet garni, and salt.
All the young men were on fire and it was out of the question to dampen their ardour.
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