catch alightの例文
- Geoff and Claudia have sex in a caravan, which later catches alight.
- Stan's attempts at hospitality backfire when Nikki's shirt catches alight over a dinner of fondue.
- Resulting in a diverse floristic assembly of flora and fauna with apparently divergent paths in similar habitats, for example scribbly gums ( " Eucalyptus racemosa / sclerophylla / haemastoma " ) have smooth barked trees in a manner which reduces their chance of catching on fire while stringy barks ( " Eucalyptus sp . " ) have bark which easily catches alight clearing the way for its fire-stimulated seedlings.
- Eyewitness A . D . Singh reported that he had seen the fire begin as a result of a dropped cigarette, whilst Safi Pitoliwali claims he saw electrical wiring in the toilet of the fourth carriage catch alight, but what ever the cause, the speed of the train combined with the open windows during the Indian summer to create an inferno, as air carried the fire back through three carriages in a massive burst of flame.