arsonist
Example Sentences
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“This is no different than the arsonist putting out the fire.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2025
Indeed, Mark Zuckerberg offering Instagram-specific screen-time reports and time limits has the whiff of an arsonist handing out firefighting tips.
From Slate • Sep. 5, 2025
He became the arsonist who laid claim to being the heroic firefighter.
From Salon • Jun. 26, 2025
A would-be arsonist explains himself — his motive: boredom — as slashing guitars scrape against the mechanized thump of a Roland drum machine.
From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2024
He’d grown up being called a freak, an arsonist, because whenever he got angry, things burned.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
Vocabulary lists containing arsonist
The Great Fire
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"We Are Many" by Pablo Neruda
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The Summer of Bitter and Sweet
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