How to Use inflammatory in a Sentence

inflammatory

adjective

• She had an acute inflammatory reaction to the drug.
• He incited the mob with an inflammatory speech.
• In other words, the cow doesn’t even have symptoms; there are just some inflammatory white cells in the milk.
  — Nicholas St. Fleur, STAT, 16 Aug. 2024
• But there are no signs Fox News is giving up on provocative and inflammatory viewpoints in the hour.
  — Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023
• Or, pollutants may lodge in the lungs, causing an inflammatory response that spreads and leads to the brain.
  — Kaiser Health News, oregonlive, 24 Sep. 2022
• This inflammatory move was a leading cause of the cease-fire’s collapse.
  — Hannah Rae Armstrong, Foreign Affairs, 4 Mar. 2025
• Topical steroids like the ones Jayne was on are among the most common ways to manage the inflammatory aspects of eczema.
  — Tamim Alnuweiri, Allure, 10 May 2022
• This is not the first time Shull has drawn backlash for his inflammatory comments.
  — oregonlive, 21 Sep. 2021
• She was drowned out by a chorus of condemnation for her inflammatory use of the R-word.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2024
• That is why the study is looking at anti-inflammatory drugs as well.
  — Gretchen Cuda Kroen, cleveland, 22 Oct. 2022
• The issue is that cells in a state of senescence release a steady stream of inflammatory molecules.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• The inflammatory disease is the most common form of eczema and leads to dry and itchy patches of scaly skin across a person’s hands, feet, and eyelids, among other places.
  — Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 4 Apr. 2022
• This pathway plays a key role in rapidly clearing pathogens and dead cells from the body and helps control the inflammatory immune response.
  — Jeanne Paz, The Conversation, 14 Dec. 2021
• This inflammatory response can move through the body, causing strokes and heart attacks in some people.
  — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 24 July 2023
• In 2002, Tracey and his colleagues broke ground in this area with their discovery that the brain can send anti-inflammatory signals to other parts of the body through the vagus nerve.
  — Quanta Magazine, 8 Nov. 2021
• Searing inflammatory destruction in my ear spread to my head, neck, throat and down.
  — Marina Gomberg, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Jan. 2022
• The first acts like an alarm bell for the immune system, starting the inflammatory process when the body detects an infection or injury.
  — New Atlas, 12 Apr. 2025
• Jones did not speak, but Trump himself supplied the inflammatory rhetoric.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2022
• These include setting off an inflammatory response in the brain or damage due to the blood clotting seen in some patients.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 Mar. 2022
• Many were based on inflammatory seed oils and had additives that didn’t meet our standards.
  — Dave Knox, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
• The anti-inflammatory enzymes of raw pineapple did the trick.
  — Jenna Watson, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Sep. 2022
• The liquid suctioned out of her lungs was teeming with inflammatory cells.
  — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 16 May 2024
• Fine is known for his staunch pro-Israel views and has faced backlash for a series of inflammatory remarks regarding the war.
  — Julia Manchester, The Hill, 27 Nov. 2024
• More inflammatory, as far as Onumonu's team is concerned, is that the glove did not turn up on an inventory of the contents of the car until 2008.
  — Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 3 Mar. 2024
• Zoom out: Democrats have sought to frame the rally rhetoric as keeping in line with Trump's commonly inflammatory language.
  — Avery Lotz, Axios, 30 Oct. 2024
• Scott has been less inflammatory than his lawyer in his public statements about the incident.
  — Marisa Dellatto, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
• What her inflammatory rhetoric might consume or ignite, and whether that would bring her ever closer to the center of power or lead to her being cast out, was yet to be known.
  — Robert Draper, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2022
• Fischer agreed with part of Kennedy’s dissent and then wrote his own, which used less inflammatory language.
  — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 16 Mar. 2022
• In response, Musk posted a series of inflammatory messages on X directed at the president.
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 13 June 2025
• Ivermectin cream can be effective at reducing the inflammatory bumps and may also help control Demodex mites, which are commonly found on the skin of individuals with rosacea.
  — Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 12 June 2025