Example sentences for: ignites

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

  • The LAT off-lead focuses on a detail mentioned in the other papers' accounts: The Russian military has been dropping on southern Chechnya fuel-air bombs, which release a gas into the air that then ignites.

  • Walcott's keen eye is drawn repeatedly to the complementary blues and oranges of his native landscape: "there, against the indigo-blue Santa Cruz/ mountains, the immortelle ignites its branches with orange/ blossoms, however briefly, while the incredible blue is/ as indifferent as ever."

  • He ignites kegs of dynamite in his Aspen, Colo., backyard.

  • He ignites Brain Opera with a sequence of chopping hand motions and vigorous leanings in his chair (picture the Enterprise under attack); this brings forth a sonic crash from the computer.


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