How to Use flammability in a Sentence

flammability

noun

• Make sure to keep the thatch removed to reduce the flammability of these species.
  — Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 22 Mar. 2025
• But there are ways to reduce forests’ flammability.
  — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2025
• With twice as much partial pressure, the flammability hazard was more than twice normal.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Mar. 2011
• Balls of cotton wool were teased into fluffy piles—a fire hazard, given their flammability and the hot studio lights.
  — The Economist, 12 Dec. 2019
• Miscanthus is an ornamental grass that can pose a greater risk in terms of flammability.
  — Michelle Mastro, Martha Stewart, 21 May 2026
• In fact, other peroxides have been used in rocket fuel thanks to their flammability.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 4 June 2022
• Areas with similar slopes and flammability are grouped into zones.
  — Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2025
• Adaptive resilience includes retrofitting homes to reduce flammability and building in less fire-prone areas.
  — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 28 Aug. 2020
• These carriers pose safety risks due to their flammability and volatility.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Oct. 2024
• The additive is one of many used in plastic to improve quality or decrease flammability.
  — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 19 Dec. 2019
• Women's scarves do not meet the federal flammability standards for clothing textiles, posing a burn risk.
  — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 2 Dec. 2019
• In terms of the latter, its inherent flammability has led to many EV fires over the years, which is clearly not ideal.
  — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 21 Feb. 2026
• To use it, these scientists must stop their tokamaks completely, introduce the gas, then leave again because of the flammability.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 26 Dec. 2019
• The different clothing items fail to meet the US flammability standards.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 13 Feb. 2022
• The solace for those parties is that the fallback option will offer no shortage of offensive flammability and star power.
  — Marc Stein, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2020
• That evaporation cools the surrounding area and lowers the plant’s flammability.
  — Max Moritz, Mercury News, 5 June 2025
• On the low-flammability list are some of Oregon’s signature trees, like dogwood and Japanese maple.
  — oregonlive, 28 June 2021
• Some of Oregon’s signature trees, like dogwood and Japanese maple, are on the low-flammability list.
  — oregonlive, 20 Nov. 2021
• The material’s easy flammability was a problem in all those places, too, writes Ria Misra for i09.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 6 Apr. 2017
• Because the fire risks of this technology are very real, flammability standards are being implemented that aim to reduce them.
  — Arlene Blum, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
• For example, building codes do not regulate the spacing of homes and the flammability of certain materials.
  — Stefano Pozzebon, CNN Money, 26 Apr. 2026
• Flame retardants, as their name suggests, are added to products and building materials to reduce the risk of fire — and meet certain flammability standards.
  — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 25 Oct. 2019
• According to the outlook, grasses and weeds have dried several weeks ahead of schedule, and the lack of brush growth may lead to dead outer branches and leaves, increasing their flammability.
  — Kellie Hwang, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 June 2021
• The United States is on fire again, not its wooden cities but its desiccated West, reaching new peaks of flammability as the planet warms.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Republic, 1 Dec. 2020
• The availability of water and storage, as well as flammability concerns, seriously limit the length of space missions.
  — Sarah Miller, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2025
• The problem was that, for a city of Chicago’s size and flammability, the department didn’t have enough of these engines or any other equipment, or nearly enough firefighters.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
• During the sunrise show, visitors lie in silence in a 26 x 26–foot square box on beetle kill pine (sourced from local trees felled for their high flammability) with their eyes to the sky.
  — Camille Okhio, ELLE Decor, 24 Aug. 2022
• With its first vote, the commission stunned manufacturers by refusing to delay the effective date of a standard for mattress flammability.
  — Sam Roberts, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
• Williams said that language referred to existing CPSC standards for things like flammability and lead.
  — Joe Hernandez, NPR, 2 May 2024
• The problem today came from a leak in a line used to load liquid hydrogen fuel into the core-stage SLS rocket, posing a flammability hazard.
  — WIRED, 5 Sep. 2022