erupt *
ignite *
catch fire
take fire
combust
conflagrate

I did not know until the night his room caught fire.

He will have to catch fire in the next few weeks if the race is to be close.

For a moment it seemed the whole world had caught fire.

I got out of the car just in time, before it caught fire.

"What if the house had caught fire while you were out?"

The older building was in use until 1903, when it once again caught fire.

They had all caught fire, and there was not one who would be left out.

His entire body felt hot, as if he were about to catch fire.

Maybe he can make things catch fire just by thinking about it.

Now, all at once, the idea caught fire within him.

Stung, her eyes shut, and the memory flashed back of that moment on the set when she'd looked into Burton's eyes and felt some thing inside catch fire.

The expression "catch fire" is intended as a joke; the CPU does not catch fire.

Mr. Valentine and his colleagues almost have no choice but to try a broad range of shows and hope that some catch fire.

He hoped the firepot wouldn't crack or the basket catch fire.

If enough water leaks out of the pool, the rods could heat up and the covering catch fire, Public Citizen contended.

Her bridge and control room catch fire and some of her crewmen are injured.

The wood of edible pine trees being very easily inflammable catch fire due to the friction of flint stone and are burnt down.

Some 60,000 catch fire every year, killing several hundred people and injuring over 10,000.

Did San Francisco catch fire already?

She'd hold up her hand so the ring would sparkle in the sun and the little emerald catch fire as if it were the eye of a liv- ing bird.