ignite - use in sentences

Object

  • imagination: Oakley as a brand is driven to ignite the imagination through the fusion of art and science.
  • gunpowder: With any luck it would ignite the gunpowder causing an explosion - which would cause the cannon ball to leave the gun.
  • flame: Now ignite a single flame, shadows form, let light remain.

Modifying Another Word

  • spontaneously: Warning: Hydrogen leaks from a high pressure cylinder may ignite spontaneously.
  • easily: The spark will easily ignite a stove or barbecue, paper, dry grass or bark.
  • finally: When the war finally ignites in its massive proportions, the action is awesome.

Used with why or when

  • when: The diesel however requires no spark plug and will ignite when compressed.

Subject

  • bomb: In all 30 houses were ignited by the incendiary bombs.

Modifying Another Word

  • once: However, once ignited, the heat from the flame keeps the burning going.

Present participle complement

  • cause: Due to the failure of a pipe a gas cloud developed which was then ignited causing a massive explosion.

Preposition: in

  • air: In this respect you can compare it with alcohol, but not with gasoline, which will explode when ignited in air.

Preposition: by

  • spark: The blast was attributed to an unusual build-up of stomach gases ignited by the sparks.
  • bomb: In all 30 houses were ignited by the incendiary bombs.

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