Examples of 'lit the fuse' in a sentence

Meaning of "lit the fuse"

This phrase is often used metaphorically and means to initiate or start a process or event that is expected to have significant consequences or repercussions. It originated from the act of lighting a fuse, which triggers an explosion

How to use "lit the fuse" in a sentence

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lit the fuse
You have lit the fuse yourself.
Just after we had lit the fuse.
I lit the fuse and became a man.
You just lit the fuse.
Lit the fuse that set off our.
And you lit the fuse.
At an event where the anarchists lit the fuse.
You just lit the fuse on an atomic bomb.
And we are the ones that lit the fuse.
I just lit the fuse on a ticking time bomb.
Only that is what really lit the fuse.
Which lit the fuse for.
And some of my students just lit the fuse.
Then lit the fuse.
And to think it was you that lit the fuse.

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We have lit the fuse.
There is little agreement about who lit the fuse.
And they lit the fuse.
Like someone stuffed a rag in a gas tank and lit the fuse.
That sure lit the fuse.
I lit the fuse.
But once again it has been anger over repression which has lit the fuse.
Tom lit the fuse.
I can not help thinking that when you told the police you lit the fuse.
She lit the fuse.
I can see the ambulance parked out there and your crew has not lit the fuse yet.
Now you have lit the fuse of the Halifax Explosion.
That was the beginning but it was the Syrian revolution that lit the fuse.
You lit the fuse But I was glad it was over.
The academic dispute on indulgences lit the fuse of the Reformation.
The massacre lit the fuse that sparked the French Wars of Religion.
Diane Meade turned Dan Garrett into a stick of dynamite and lit the fuse.
Just ' cause we lit the fuse does not mean we control the explosion.
The bombing was never authorized but I suspect I know who lit the fuse.
This then lit the fuse in the grenade, providing an eight-second delay before detonation.
Taped it so he could not spit it out, lit the fuse.
Did you see that? I just lit the fuse on a ticking time bomb.
My stepbrother gave a little address, perfectly judged, and my sister lit the fuse.
They then lit the fuse and abandoned the fort, leaving the French flag flying.
None of those people would have been murdered, if you had not lit the fuse.
Eviction . And tonight andrew lit the Fuse that ignited a war of.
The safe was removed by captain bertorelli, just after we had lit the fuse.
We lit the fuse and blew Mr. Potato Head into hash browns.
Maybe when you operated on his wound, you lit the fuse on his thyroid.
I have lit the fuse to the dynamite!
Two of our guys rode through a few days back, apparently lit the fuse.
Okay . Now you have lit the fuse of the Halifax Explosion.
We got about another minute . If he lit the fuse.
Who lit the fuse on her tampon?
It will be over as soon as it starts, now that Bridger lit the fuse.

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