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Example sentences for: igniting

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In September 1687 Venetian forces threatened Athens and one of their mortars hit the Parthenon, igniting the powder inside.
The story is igniting two controversies: 1) Can the man be convicted of a crime?
But Barr's real genius has been igniting nasty fires over issues that Republican leaders would rather ignore.
Slate's Paul Krugman notes that the past year has brought good news about the economy's ability to tolerate low unemployment without igniting inflation.
Regretful for igniting the Paula Jones scandal, Brock admits the Spectator article was spurred by an "open political agenda."