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Example sentences for: ignite

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Growing more indignant by the paragraph, the editors declared it "time to ignite a popular outcry against unelected officials and their efforts to invalidate the results of elections."
Dick Lugar, R-Ind., rescued Weld by demanding that he get a hearing, lest his jihad against Helms ignite "civil war in the Republican Party."
Here the stems are reasonably certain, but they ignite an extended metaphor.
Lederer writes, “the flash of the primer in the pan of the rifle failed to ignite the explosion of the charge.”
The cover story explains why Jerusalem could be the tripwire for World War III and profiles the delusional extremists who could ignite it: Jewish fanatics who want to retake the Temple Mount by force, Christian apocalypse-awaiters who want to see the temple rebuilt, and seething sheiks who will wage war before ceding authority over the Dome of the Rock.