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Example sentences for: ignite

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Why not call witnesses, inflame these incendiary accusers, and help them ignite the proceedings, perhaps torching their own party in the process?
Time stresses the historical angle, calling the Balkans a centuries-old "tinderbox" that the NATO airstrikes will ignite.
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.
Lederer writes, “the flash of the primer in the pan of the rifle failed to ignite the explosion of the charge.”
Just as sex increases dopamine in the accumbens, stubbing one's toe may ignite neurological anxiety.