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setting fire
noun as in arson
Example Sentences
In December 2011 he and another man, Garreth Foster, were sentenced to 10 years in prison for deliberately setting fire to Hanley’s Regent Road mosque.
The Unison union said residents had seen large groups of young men causing disorder until 02:00, firing "industrial-sized" fireworks at people, buildings and cars, and setting fire to public property.
Three men who admitted setting fire to a double-decker bus during a night of disorder in Leeds have been jailed.
Celan Palaghia, 21, was jailed for three years for throwing bricks at police officers and setting fire to boxes and a sofa in the street.
Former Glendale Fire Capt. John Orr proclaimed his innocence even as he was sentenced in 1992 to 30 years in federal prison for setting fire to three stores in the San Joaquin Valley in 1987 as he drove home from an arson investigators conference in Fresno.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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