Examples of spontaneous combustion in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The fans think Slayer’s act onstage is spontaneous combustion, a spark of wicked enthusiasm setting off a firestorm of malevolence. — Bob Larsen, SPIN, 12 Feb. 2022 It is known for spontaneous combustion, not just combustion. — New York Times, 13 Dec. 2020 Here’s an overdose in one room, and a person stabbed with an ancient sword in another, a snakebite on the second floor of a hotel, a spontaneous combustion, a man in skeleton makeup cackling through a compound fracture. — Katie Walsh, chicagotribune.com, 20 Oct. 2020 Those conditions are borne out in Dickens’s fiction, which is filled with death of all kinds (murder, drowning, and in once case spontaneous combustion). — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 16 Sep. 2020 Famous for their electric-blue fire (created by the spontaneous combustion of subterranean gasses) and toxic yellow smoke, the mines would make an interesting photography project, Louie thought. — Michael Hardy, Wired, 17 Feb. 2020 When the two chemicals came into contact with one another, there was a spontaneous combustion reaction that would propel the ascent module off of the descent module and into lunar orbit. — Alex Hollings, Popular Mechanics, 24 July 2019 In February, the 3,865-square-foot home was damaged by a freak fire, caused by spontaneous combustion of a pile of dead grass, in which luckily nobody was hurt, Mary Wise of Keller Williams Central tells CountryLiving.com. — Jenae Sitzes, Country Living, 28 Apr. 2017 Much of the IndyDrum plant was heavily damaged in a May 2014 fire caused by spontaneous combustion of chemicals that had been mixed with sawdust used to clean drums. — Rick Barrett, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2017 See More

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“Spontaneous combustion.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spontaneous%20combustion. Accessed 18 May. 2022.

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