Wiktionary
vb. 1 To cause to begin to burn. 2 (context figuratively English) To excite, to arouse passion in
Usage examples of "set alight".
The brigadier decides the fuel shouldn't fall into enemy hands and he orders the cocks opened and the fuel set alight.
A flush of heat, raw and uncontainable, his blood transformed to dry prairie grass that some fool had set alight, the conflagration racing up his arms like a runaway wildfire, consuming him from fingers to toes in a single heartbeat.
A town set alight in a frenzy of blood-lust was often the best reward after a day on the field.
The distant figure was tied upright in the nest and it was set alight, all in a moment.
The newcomer was set alight though, greasy skin going up like a bonfire, and it screamed hideously as it burned.
Beneath his bandages, Raif felt his hands burning as if they had been doused in pure alcohol and set alight.
Deep down he reached, beyond the caverns of his five-chambered heart, deep into the blood that looked as red as any mans but would burn like fuel when set alight, down into the muscle meat where the memories of his giant ancestors waited to be sparked.
The men had foraged for wood on the stony slopes around the lake, and the little they found was kindled and set alight as night fell, making small campfires that sputtered fitfully and gave little light.
The green crops in the fields could never have been set alight, but the parched edges of thatched roofs flared brightly at the merest touch of flame.
He looked especially for hollow trees that would burn well, and set alight the detritus at their roots.
Zarfo, plucking a hair from each head, twisted a fiber which he set alight.
Where its gaze touched the great crowns of trees, the lush summer foliage simply whoofed into sheets of fire, like a sequence of torches set alight, and birds burst from the woods in a flurry of wings and flocked in panic toward the cliffs.