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Example sentences for: sparking

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Nassau became a free port in 1787, sparking a surge in trading activity.
Balkan watchers say the killings will provoke the Albanians--90 percent of Kosovo's population--into armed revolt, sparking a conflagration that could involve the rest of Europe.
Monetary union and relaxed fiscal policy are sparking the boom.
Nation speakers soon appeared on major college campuses, grabbing headlines and sparking confrontations between black and Jewish students.
He or she would be, in a word, Greenspanian, still concerned about the possibility of an overheating economy but also convinced that important technological changes have allowed this economy to grow faster than in the past without sparking inflation.