How to Use combustible in a Sentence

combustible

adjective

• The fuel is highly combustible.
• The movie felt cold yet combustible, and there was that lunatic car chase.
  — James Gray, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2023
• Keep the puck away from the sun or any combustible material.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 26 June 2022
• Choose other mulches, or keep any combustible mulches at least five feet from your home.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2023
• Tension builds as War Pony makes its way to a combustible finish.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 May 2022
• The atmosphere around youth and high school sports is already combustible.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 14 June 2022
• Ghost promises of the two combustible forces igniting venues.
  — Shaheem Reid, Billboard, 21 July 2022
• Keep in Mind This isn't a good choice for wood patios or other combustible surfaces.
  — Laura (fisher) Matta, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 July 2023
• What the effect of this attack might be on the combustible politics of the region in question matters not a jot.
  — The New Yorker, 20 May 2022
• The reasons for failure ranged from the presence of combustible materials to faulty wiring and more.
  — Christopher Weber, Quartz, 7 Feb. 2024
• These moves add up to a combustible moment: Sports is on the cusp of going all in on streaming, but the business models are still being built.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Dec. 2023
• Falling gas prices have slowed the urgency among consumers to make a switch from combustible engines.
  — Byryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 29 Feb. 2024
• Then, the device recombines the oxygen ions to make breathable and combustible oxygen gas.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2022
• That’s a combustible combination that could result in scribes forming picket lines for the first time in 15 years.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
• Pits need to be placed at least 15 feet from any combustible structure, according to a city ordinance.
  — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 1 June 2023
• Caplan is a combustible delight in the showy role that earned Close one of her Oscar nominations.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Apr. 2023
• The peatland around Melness is a valuable carbon sink and is highly combustible.
  — WIRED, 31 Jan. 2023
• The two are purely combustible together, barely able to keep their hands off each other.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 30 Aug. 2022
• But nature tends to start fires in less combustible conditions than humans do.
  — Corinne Purtillstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2022
• Officials said the entire 18-floor building had to be searched for people and combustible products.
  — Jennifer Edwards Baker, The Enquirer, 21 Feb. 2023
• Those dynamics are setting the stage for a combustible finish to the surprisingly tight race.
  — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 14 Oct. 2022
• Customers should remove this puck and store it away from the sun or combustible material, the commission said.
  — April Rubin, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2022
• My fear is that the arrest will only pour more fuel on a combustible situation.
  — Ayesha Jalal, Fortune, 10 May 2023
• Removing lint, which is highly combustible, also reduces the risk of fire.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Sep. 2022
• Woodard said that buffelgrass is highly combustible and adapted to fires.
  — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 4 July 2022
• The organic waste in the landfill decays, resulting in a build-up of highly combustible methane gas.
  — Aniruddha Ghosal, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2022
• The dispute has become tied up with the combustible mix of Hong Kong’s crackdown, as opponents of the land swap — even those aligned with Beijing — test the limits of free expression.
  — Joy Dong, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2023
• Aranda, as thoughtful as McGuire is combustible, blamed himself.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 1 Sep. 2023
• Some carried air quality alarms to alert the team to unsafe levels of carbon monoxide or combustible gases, of which there were none.
  — Joshua Gunter, cleveland, 22 July 2022
• That debut album, recorded in October ’68 at the Grande Ballroom, was the first of three records from the combustible quintet with the left-wing firebrand politics.
  — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 5 May 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024