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
Next period, when the room was full, he set a match to the hair tonic.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Then Dentist Zepeda set a match to Nicaragua's prime emotion: suspicion of the U. S., of which Sandino was hero and symbol.
From Time Magazine Archive
Leon and his friends backed away as if I’d set a match to them.
From "Bronx Masquerade" by Nikki Grimes
