set alight
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On a summer night alongside the Colorado River, a line of telegraph poles is set alight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Hazardous waste -- often from Italy's wealthy north -- has long been set alight or buried in the area around Acerra, a city near Naples, in the southern region of Campania.
From Barron's ● May 23, 2026
Cleveland Police said a quantity of suspected WW2 ordnance was discovered and had been set alight, leaving one person with minor burns, as crews were called to Crimdon Dene beach, near Hartlepool, on Tuesday morning.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2026
It was set alight in the early hours of Thursday morning in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda East, Victoria police said in a statement, describing it as a "suspicious fire".
From Barron's ● Dec. 25, 2025
The gilded Statue of the Republic rose before me, set alight by the setting sun until it glowed as brightly as the angel Dumah’s flaming sword.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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