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catches fire
vb. (en-third-person singularcatch fire)
Usage examples of "catches fire".
Sometimes my body catches fire, and sometimes the fire goes out and makes me feel like a tortoise.
This is an ultimate settling of accounts before the whole Eastern Hemisphere catches fire.
But when it's a hundred yards out over the water, the sparrow catches fire, coughs out a great cloud of sticky yellow smoke, turns into a white fireball, and springs forward.
And if, after all, you arrange things so cleverly that he gets killed, then the whole of Crete catches fire!
I have heard that the cattle of Chalced are easily twice the size of what we raise here, and so fat that the meat catches fire if you try to cook it over an open flame.
Then, too, when the forest gets dry, it catches fire fairly often.