How to Use inflammable in a Sentence

inflammable

adjective

• Flammable and inflammable mean the same thing.
  — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 10 Feb. 2026
• The silky, inflammable scent of lighter fluid hit first, then the Whitesnake.
  — Kent Russell, Harper's Magazine, 15 Sep. 2020
• High levels of methane gas and coal dust, both highly inflammable, make mines hazardous.
  — Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2021
• This is because of the inflammable hydrogen used in the Zeppelin.
  — Kurt Chandler, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2017
• Rust has covered parts of the tanker and the inert gas that prevents the tanks from gathering inflammable gases, has leaked out.
  — Washington Post, 26 June 2020
• Rust has covered parts of the tanker and the inert gas that prevents the tanks from gathering inflammable gases, has leaked out.
  — Washington Post, 10 July 2020
• Each soldier engaged in this form of attack has strapped to his back a tank containing an inflammable liquid under high pressure.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 30 Sep. 2020
• Luckily, the cartoon cat didn't explode, as the balloon was filled with non-inflammable helium.
  — Kate Hogan, PEOPLE, 27 Nov. 2025
• Police found the construction company name on inflammable polystyrene boards that firefighters found blocking some windows at the apartment complex.
  — Catherine Nicholls, CNN Money, 26 Nov. 2025
• Many works of Georges Méliès are even believed to have been burned as the original negatives, as the nitrate film stock is incredibly fragile and inflammable.
  — Munis Raza, Interesting Engineering, 9 Mar. 2026
• The more inflammable nitrogen present the less flammable oxygen, helping reduce the possibility of fuel tank explosions.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 26 June 2020
• The tenants were essentially living on the top of a highly inflammable firetrap, one in which mass evacuation was impossible, as was evidenced when a few of victims filmed their last moments with their phones.
  — Henry Porter, The Hive, 16 June 2017
• Offshore platforms are notoriously hazardous locations, dense with heavy equipment and handling large quantities of highly inflammable liquids and gases.
  — University Of Houston Energy Fellows, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
• It can be synthesized through a chemical process using acetic anhydride, a high-inflammable and colorless liquid used to make fibers, plastics, pharmaceuticals, dyes, and explosives.
  — Dario Sabaghi, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022
• To build the next generation of better-shielded, lightweight spacecraft, engineers will have to figure out how to safely enclose the shielding material inside something airtight and inflammable.
  — Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 6 June 2019
• His role is subsumed into that of the fictitious and flamboyant—though thankfully not inflammable—Amelia Wren (Felicity Jones).
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2019
• Some jurisdictions have started mandating the installation of such electric appliances in new construction, threatening the power of the incumbent inflammable technology.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 24 June 2020
• Although civil protection and the response to fires in the area have improved over the years, bureaucratic hurdles aimed at protecting Mediterranean scrubland mean that inflammable vegetation is often not cleared, creating fire hazards, experts say.
  — Gaia Pianigiani, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2021
• An artificial strait without nature's currents will reduce the kind of accidents that bedevil ships passing through the Bosphorus's treacherous contours, especially tankers carrying huge amounts of inflammable petrochemicals.
  — Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 17 May 2021
• By the way, the top stories on that January day in 1952 were a White House nomination for Vatican envoy withdrawing amid controversy, and a recall of inflammable sweaters.
  — Brian Stelter, CNN, 13 Jan. 2022