How to Use lighter fluid in a Sentence

lighter fluid

noun

• Gloves and bleach were found in the front of the car, and lighter fluid was found in the backseat.
  — Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 5 Dec. 2024
• Gloves and bleach were found in the front of the car while lighter fluid was found in the backseat.
  — Brenna Gauchat, The Arizona Republic, 22 Mar. 2024
• Don’t pour it down the sink if there’s still lighter fluid.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2022
• The report stated that gloves and bleach were found in the front of the car and lighter fluid was in the backseat.
  — Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 18 Nov. 2024
• The teens eventually pulled to the side of the road and poured lighter fluid inside the car.
  — Michael Tarm, USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2020
• The silky, inflammable scent of lighter fluid hit first, then the Whitesnake.
  — Kent Russell, Harper's Magazine, 15 Sep. 2020
• The torch also broke and the lighter fluid was splattered all over the living room.
  — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 19 Mar. 2025
• Then Woody sent him into the house for matches and lighter fluid.
  — Shaun Raviv, WIRED, 21 Jan. 2020
• Co-conspirators doused the car in lighter fluid and lit it on fire with the couple still in the trunk.
  — Lawrence Andrea, The Indianapolis Star, 25 Sep. 2020
• Davis placed a pair of New Balance sneakers and a grey sweatsuit on the grill in the backyard and doused the clothes with lighter fluid.
  — Cassidy Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 10 Apr. 2024
• The source of the fire was a mattress that had been doused in lighter fluid and ignited at the door to the manager’s apartment.
  — Matthew Ormsethstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2022
• The analysis showed that they had been poisoned by a grilling lighter fluid.
  — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2022
• Gloves and bleach were found in the front of the car and lighter fluid was in the backseat, the medical examiner wrote in the report.
  — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 25 Nov. 2024
• The children’s mother put lighter fluid on Shauna Beth and lit her on fire.
  — Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 21 Mar. 2024
• Back on the north side, Jackson returned to her house to find no charcoal, no lighter fluid, no car, no Floyd.
  — Washington Post, 9 May 2022
• Once the statue of Pike was toppled, demonstrators doused it in lighter fluid and set it on fire.
  — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 20 June 2020
• Julia added a single Bic lighter fluid earring, and wore her long brown hair straight and down.
  — Seventeen, 12 May 2023
• Officers found a lighter next to the bottle of charcoal lighter fluid.
  — Katie Redefer, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Nov. 2021
• Remove the burner before filling with lighter fluid, and use the fill cup to help reduce spills.
  — Amanda Ogle, Southern Living, 15 Dec. 2023
• Police said other steps had been doused with lighter fluid.
  — Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2021
• Trump, of course, dumped a warehouse's worth of lighter fluid on that partisan fire over his four years in office.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 14 Apr. 2021
• Ruffin and the other man then lit some paper and ignited the lighter fluid.
  — Bruce Vielmetti, Journal Sentinel, 30 Sep. 2022
• Steer away from sappy woods such as pine and starter logs treated with lighter fluid, as those will affect the flavor of your food.
  — Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, 23 Sep. 2020
• Afterward, Vialva told the others to burn the car, and Bernard went with another boy to buy lighter fluid.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2020
• The report alleged that Ivory went to the Walmart store’s sporting-goods section and picked up two machetes and lighter fluid.
  — Jim Saunders, Orlando Sentinel, 17 Dec. 2024
• Officers noticed that there was an open bottle of lighter fluid on the mantle that did not appear to have come into contact with an open flame.
  — Kc Baker, PEOPLE, 5 Dec. 2025
• The man looked out his peephole and saw Gieske and heard the noise of someone shaking a lighter fluid can.
  — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 7 Nov. 2025
• Dad would question her drinking, which was like squirting lighter fluid on a roaring fire.
  — Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
• Sunday threw lighter fluid on the fire.
  — Miami Herald, 13 Oct. 2025
• The bodies of the four teenagers were discovered the next morning when firefighters were called to put out a fire that had been set with lighter fluid.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2025