List of antonyms from "take comers" to antonyms from "take five"


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Definition of the day : « take fire »

  • As in ignite : verb set on fire
Example sentences :
  • Burke was not a man to take fire because he thought a principle false.
  • Extract from : « Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle » by H. N. Brailsford
  • Young Ellwell was too miserable to take fire at this brutality.
  • Extract from : « The Man Who Wins » by Robert Herrick
  • It is impossible to tell where Raleigh's pen will take fire.
  • Extract from : « Raleigh » by Edmund Gosse
  • Sawdust in contact with vegetable oil is very likely to take fire.
  • Extract from : « Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction » by James Braidwood
  • This building was one of the first to take fire on Fifth street.
  • Extract from : « Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror » by Richard Linthicum
  • This rapid compression of the air will cause the fungus to take fire.
  • Extract from : « The Book of Camp-Lore and Woodcraft » by Dan Beard
  • These are the marshes which in every part are subject to take fire.
  • Extract from : « The Geography of Strabo, Volume II (of 3) » by Strabo
  • It is objectionable chiefly from being liable to take fire spontaneously when left for some time moistened with oil.
  • Extract from : « Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I » by Arnold Cooley
  • Potassium placed on alcohol does not take fire, unless a considerable per-centage of water be present.
  • Extract from : « Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I » by Arnold Cooley
  • Does not take fire or explode if the lamp be upset or broken.
  • Extract from : « Scientific American, Volume XXIV., No. 12, March 18, 1871 » by Various