noun
definition
The crime of deliberately starting a fire with intent to cause damage.
verb
definition
To illegally set fire to; to burn down in a criminal manner
Examples of arson in a Sentence
Thus, a man guilty of arson was burned alive.
Ruptures in natural gas mains caused many, and many were also the result of arson.
Reduce the number of fires caused by arson each year.
He seized and beheaded Lord Saye, the treasurer, and several other unpopular persons, and thight have continued his dictatorship for some time if the Kentish mob that follawed him bad not fallen to general pillage and arson.
Schools Every week 20 schools are damaged or destroyed by arson at a cost of £ 60 million.
Serving 22 years & 8 months for arson on a car dealership & attempted arson of an oil truck.
In 2000 I was arrested on suspicion of arson, which I was later found not guilty of.
Under the cloud of suspected arson, the Queen Elizabeth was finally scrapped in 1975.
Around 90,000 children are affected by school arson each year.
The students will tour shools in West Yorkshire from December 3-14, targeting areas prone to arson attacks.
In 1014 the bridge was destroyed by arson, destroyed by arson, destroyed by a storm in 1091 and then destroyed by fire again in 1136.
Arson, murder, art forgery, con artists, you name it, you got it.
Police in Stolac and in Gacko proved unwilling or unable to contain the numerous instances of arson designed to intimidate returnees.
Figures just released highlight the urgent need for further action to combat arson.
The agreed priorities should be specific to tackling arson.
Working together to prevent arson Arson is the largest single cause of fire in the UK.
Arson reduction Advice on measures which can be taken to prevent arson reduction Advice on measures which can be taken to prevent arson.
From 1910 to 1914 many of its members were taking part in window smashing raids and some committed arson.
Arson target to come down Mental health review Parkside plans given final tweak Spare a drop?
The principal grounds for an absolute divorce are impotency, adultery, wilful or malicious desertion, cruel and barbarous treatment, personal abuse and conviction of any such crime as arson, burglary, embezzlement, forgery, kidnapping, larceny, murder, perjury or assault with intent to kill.
The country had heard much of the German espionage system, spies were suspected everywhere, and many acts of sabotage, arson, and violence in factories engaged in munition production were ascribed to them.
They were charged with arson, criminal mischief and reckless endangerment, authorities said.
In 1969 damage due to arson attack by a Zionist zealot took twenty years to repair.
If a park has been long abandoned, its rides, buildings, and other structures may fall victim to vandalism and arson, effectively demolishing the defunct rides.
Yet whoever sets out to commit arson, arms his bold hands with fire.
There was more arson and blackmailing than murder, though some prominent persons perished, such as the judge, Sir John Caven.dish, and the prior of Bury.
As compared with the earlier assize it prescribes greater severity of punishment for criminal offences; arson and forgery were henceforth to be crimes about which the jurors are to enquire; and those who failed at the ordeal were to lose a hand as well as a foot.
Immediately after the sack of Lawrence, John Brown and a small band murdered and mutilated five pro-slavery men, on Pottawatomie Creek; a horrible deed, showing a new spirit on the freestate side, and of ghastly consequence - for it contributed powerfully to widen further the licence of highway robbery, pillage and arson, the ruin of homes, the driving off of settlers, marauding expeditions, attacks on towns, outrages in short of every kind, that made the following months a welter of lawlessness and crime, until Governor Geary - by putting himself above all partisanship, repudiating Missouri, and using Federal troops put an end to them late in 1856.