Example sentences for: ignite

How can you use “ignite” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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."

  • Just as sex increases dopamine in the accumbens, stubbing one's toe may ignite neurological anxiety.

  • The conservative Jerusalem Post led its front page with the warning by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, following his Cairo summit with King Hussein of Jordan and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, that the negotiations deadlock and Israel's plan to expand Jerusalem could ignite violence that might prove unstoppable.

  • … An editorial warns that the bombardment of Chechnya could ignite a war in the Caucasus.

  • 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."


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