catch fire

Example Sentences

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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

If social media were a literal ecosystem, it would be about as healthy as Cleveland’s Cuyahoga River in the 1960s—when it was so polluted it repeatedly caught fire.

From The Wall Street Journal

"One of the candles was held too close to the ceiling, which caught fire. In a matter of seconds, the entire ceiling was ablaze. Everything was made of wood."

From BBC