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combusting

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verb

present participle of combust

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of combusting
Verb
Crews detected no visible signs of the fire, such as flames, smoke or perceptibly combusting material. Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for combusting
Adjective
  • Equal to Tesfaye’s navel-gazing, Shults uses every trick in the music-video playbook to conjure a vivid, ultra-saturated but not quite realistic universe where the Weeknd is a brightly burning sun everyone revolves around.
    Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 15 May 2025
  • Ben Johnson has a ‘burning desire’ to be a head coach.
    Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Over 12,000 glowing Amazon ratings back up the hype.
    Becca Blond, Travel + Leisure, 13 Apr. 2025
  • The episode follows Maria (Siena Kelly), a food researcher whose latest project receives a glowing review from a focus group subject named Verity (Rosy McEwen), one of Maria's ex-classmates who was relentlessly bullied in school.
    Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 12 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • That's pretty vague, but the season 2 teaser trailer highlights several of the aforementioned foes and woes, from a host of haunted dolls and a swarm of bees to a flaming, winged creature and the gnarly sight of Tyler (Hunter Doohan) in his Hyde form.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Earth upon Earth has opened and already come to the iced or flaming end of everything except sludge or scales or fur.
    Julie Swarstad Johnson, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The clip, a 53-minute visualizer posted on YouTube, shows four red stockings hanging over a blazing fireplace alongside a Christmas tree.
    Latoya Gayle, People.com, 20 Dec. 2024
  • The clip, a 53-minute visualizer posted on YouTube, shows four red stockings hanging over a blazing fireplace alongside a Christmas tree.
    Latoya Gayle, People.com, 20 Dec. 2024

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“Combusting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/combusting. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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