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How to use arson in a sentence

12 example sentences · noun, verb

Arson means the crime of deliberately starting a fire with intent to cause damage. Example: “The dumpster fire was ruled an arson.”

Examples of arson by meaning

nounThe crime of deliberately starting a fire with intent to cause damage.

  • carry out an arson attack
  • Arson, like we thought. three punks doused a car, lit it, and took off.2006, Paul Chadwick, Concrete: Killer Smile, Part two, p.34
  • Matthews is charged with three counts of simple arson on a religious building.2019 April 12, Paul P. Murphy and Samira Said, “Louisiana arson suspect expressed disgust with Baptist churches on Facebook”, in CNN...

More sentences with arson

  • The dumpster fire was ruled an arson.From the entry dumpster fire
  • In many states, an act of arson that accidentally kills someone automatically makes the arsonist liable for felony murder.From the entry felony murder
  • A woman has praised firefighters and her cat for saving her life following an alleged arson attack.2013 December 19, Abby Bolter, “Firefighters Rescue Woman Trapped in Bridgend Flat following an Alleged Arson Attack”, in WalesOnline…. From the entry scram
  • Examples would include arson accelerants, bank robbery explosive dye packs, and lacrymators (tear gas).2011, William Jerry Chisum, Brent E. Turvey, Crime Reconstruction, →ISBN, page 262. From the entry lacrymator
  • The woman, Francisca Medina, was indicted on three charges: felony arson, felony criminal mischief and state jail felony criminal mischief.2008 May 1, Associated Press, “Texas: Wife of Justice Is Indicted Again”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry francisca
  • Then the midnight rap about arson with his ring-a-ding attorney.2001, Jim Moore, Island of Ashes, page 136. From the entry ring-a-ding
  • And that history of persecution is newly relevant after the mass shooting and arson targeting an LDS church in Michigan last Sunday.2025 October 5, Eric Levenson, “Attack on LDS Church harkens back to its early history of religious persecution”, in CNN, archived from…. From the entry Michigan
  • Pankhurst and her associates in the suffrage campaign of “frightfulness” were able to do in all their years of hair-pulling and arson.1916, Hardware Dealers’ Magazine, page 754. From the entry ironmongress
  • Arson has not been ruled out in a fire that broke out Friday in Yungho, New Taipei, causing one death and 24 injuries, the city's fire department said that day.2014 September 12, “Deadly New Taipei blaze: arson suspected”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 03 Oct 2022, Society. From the entry rule out

Meaning of arson

  1. noun The crime of deliberately starting a fire with intent to cause damage.
  2. verb To illegally set fire to; to burn down in a criminal manner.
  3. noun A saddlebow.

Full definition of arson

Questions about arson in a sentence

How do you use arson in a sentence?
Arson is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The dumpster fire was ruled an arson.”
What is a short sentence with arson?
“carry out an arson attack”
What does arson mean?
Arson means the crime of deliberately starting a fire with intent to cause damage.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: arson (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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