Set-alight Sentence Examples

The "Royal James" (loo), the flagship of his second in command, the earl of Sandwich, after being much shattered by the Dutch artillery, was set alight by a fire-ship, and destroyed with enormous loss of life.

Offenders poured an accelerant onto front doors of the houses and through letterboxes and set alight using matches.

Mr Johnson's friend and employer, Jack Sheridan, was doused with gasoline and set alight on February 3, 1975.

We were told of the way corpses in concentration camps were layered up with logs, then the whole lot set alight.

Dutch barn containing 120 tons of hay was set alight by a child playing with matches.

This would then be set alight and once the flames had died down the cattle would be driven through the smoking embers.

The colonial police used methods like slicing off ears, flogging until death and pouring paraffin over suspects who were then set alight.

Fire crews attended to find that an external gas pipe had been deliberately tampered with and escaping gas set alight.

The incident in question related to a holly wreath on a Stromness property being set alight.