Examples of “incendiarism” in a Sentence

noun (law) The crime of deliberately setting fire to property.

• Incendiarism is a major fire problem in many cities; Mr. Fairtrace here recommends needed changes in insurance and fire protection methods. — Public Management (1933)
• In the surrounding black slums incendiarism shoots up in the summer, an index, soem say, of psychopathology. Although the love of flames it's also religious. — Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift (1976)

noun Words or actions that deliberately stir up trouble or conflict.

• But the charge sheet is not just a recapitulation of instances of imperial incendiarism, such as the Amritsar massacre or the bombings of Iraqi villages. — Piers Brendon, ‘Beginning the Dissent’ (2012)