arsonist

Example Sentences

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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

His mother told The Times that he is ‘not an arsonist.’

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2025

And he appeared just as often in more popular fare, playing a spacey tank commander in “Kelly’s Heroes,” a demented arsonist in “Backdraft” and an authoritarian president in the “Hunger Games” films.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 27, 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