Sentence examples of "set alight" in English
Red sky in morning; global warming. Red sky at night, reactor's alight.
Ciel rouge du matin, la terre va pas bien; ciel rouge du soir, le réacteur repart.
A fund was launched to set up a monument in memory of the dead man.
Une souscription a été lancée afin d'ériger un monument à mémoire du défunt.
If you are a parent, don't allow yourself to set your heart on any particular line of work for your children.
Si vous êtes parent, ne vous laissez pas aller à pencher en direction d'une voie professionnelle particulière pour vos enfants.
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
Le but du propagandiste est de faire oublier à un ensemble de personnes que certains autres ensembles de personnes sont humaines.
The story is set in Neuilly-on-the-Seine, a French town not far from Paris.
L’histoire se déroule à Neuilly-sur-Seine, une commune française près de Paris.
In the absence of firm evidence the prisoner was set free.
À cause d'un manque de preuves flagrantes, le prisonnier a été remis en liberté.
Some religious groups set up gigantic generational ships that travelled many years away from the Solar System to distant stars.
Certains groupes religieux mirent sur pied de gigantesques navires générationnels qui voyageaient en direction d'étoiles éloignées, à de nombreuses années du système solaire.
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