catch fire

Example Sentences

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Among those who have died was the waitress who was seen in a video wearing a helmet and holding a champagne bottle with a sparkler attached and the ceiling catching fire.

From BBC

“All the fuels are too wet to really catch fire.”

From Los Angeles Times

The statement said a machine that he was operating near his hometown of Burnet caught fire.

From Los Angeles Times

Last year, two girls were hospitalized after an electric scooter caught fire in a Los Angeles apartment building.

From Los Angeles Times

"This is a Notre Dame inferno in the making," he says in a reference to the Parisian cathedral which caught fire in 2019.

From BBC