(1) A grassroots militant movement was setting the area afire and Bin Laden, as he had done elsewhere, was able to graft his own global struggle on to the local one of the tribes of places such as Waziristan.
(2) Connie hated him for using the earthy Nottinghamshire dialect instead of the received pronunciation he had acquired in the Army that made his commonness acceptable; yet her womanhood was set afire with sexual symbolism.
(3) She retweets it and in moments Twitter is afire with Cumbertrees.
(4) The episode begins with an exterior view of the Abbey, dark save a single high window, awake and afire.
Aflame
Definition:
(adv. & a.) Inflames; glowing with light or passion; ablaze.
Example Sentences:
(1) Once again the stone country is aflame late in the dry season.
(2) He added: "The person who lit the spark that set the whole country aflame was the prime minister."
(3) A caveman holds in one hand a pot labelled “petrol”, in the other a wooden stick, aflame, labelled “fire”.
(4) The last week of campaigning was entirely overshadowed after Ken Livingstone, Labour’s last London mayor, took up his handy blowtorch and set aflame the party’s rumbling row about anti-semitism.
(5) Bracken, gorse and dry moorland grass appear to be aflame.
(6) Their dynamic forward tandem of Warren Archibald and Steve David lit the nets aflame, but it wasn’t enough: the team left town in 1983 for Minnesota.
(7) At least one policeman was injured and the Guardian saw another with his leg aflame after what looked like a Molotov cocktail exploded beside him.
(8) Besides the goals, there was enough incident to keep rivalry aflame.