Synonyms

1. conflagrate
2. enkindle
3. inflame

Sentence Examples

1. Somewhere he could kindle a flame against the encroaching night.
2. When I heard them talking of bull-fights taking place, and of javelin games, and of acting plays, I asked my brother, who is a year younger than myself, to tell me what sort of things these were, and many more that I had never seen he explained them to me as well as he could, but the only effect was to kindle in me a still stronger desire to see them.
3. In a few seconds after my leaving the cloud, a flash of vivid lightning shot from one end of it to the other, and caused it to kindle up, throughout its vast extent, like a mass of ignited and glowing charcoal.
4. Athos had no longer his son to induce him to walk firmly, with head erect, as a good example he had no longer, in those brilliant eyes of the young man, an ever-ardent focus at which to kindle anew the fire of his looks.
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6. I delivered up both my pistols in the same manner as I had done my scimitar, and then my pouch of powder and bullets begging him that the former might be kept from the fire, for it would kindle with the smallest spark and blow up his imperial palace into the air.
7. I took out my small provisions, and after having refreshed myself, I secured the remainder in a cave, whereof there were great numbers I gathered plenty of eggs upon the rocks, and got a quantity of dry seaweed and parched grass, which I designed to kindle the next day, and roast my eggs as well as I could, for I had about me my flint, steel, match, and burning-glass.
8. I found some shellfish on the shore, and ate them raw, not daring to kindle a fire, for fear of being discovered by the natives.
9. But in the age of the Kindle and other e-readers, many folk on lengthy jaunts simply no longer possess the literature to swap.
10. In fact, I think Amazon programmed my Kindle to skip right over this page entirely.