set a match to
Example Sentences
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But just because “Good People” is about South Boston, a site notorious for racial strife, doesn’t mean that Mr. Lindsay-Abaire is going to set a match to working-class prejudices.
From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2011
When he was gone, Mother got the children to move the beds, stove and furniture into the smaller smokehouse; then she set a match to the house.
From Time Magazine Archive
Next period, when the room was full, he set a match to the hair tonic.
From Time Magazine Archive
He would surely set a match to the piece if he could hear this singable, danceable performance by the sonorous strings and woodwinds of the Berlin Philharmonic Octet.
From Time Magazine Archive
I set a match to the kindling in the fireplace and ran and got extra lamps and set them around the perimeter of his blotter like an intimate constellation.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
