How to Use combustible in a Sentence

combustible

adjective

• The fuel is highly combustible.
• He's been off combustible tobacco products for three years.
  — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2019
• If more combustible material can be licked by flame, and wind can direct and feed its heat, a fire can rage.
  — Tessa Love, Longreads, 8 Nov. 2019
• There were plenty of combustible materials that were untouched by the fast-moving fire.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Nov. 2019
• With four straight losses, Washington is in a combustible situation, and fans have stopped showing up to games.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 23 Nov. 2019
• Defenders say e-cigarettes are a good substitute for combustible cigarettes and can help people quit.
  — Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2019
• Ignitions can happen when flames reach the house, flying embers land on something combustible or radiant heat spreads from a nearby structure fire.
  — Kathleen Pender, SFChronicle.com, 23 Nov. 2019
• An overloaded boat chugged past, headed upstream, probably carrying combustible to miners.
  — Nell Zink, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
• Smoking is only allowed inside of vehicles, on roadways or in other areas without combustible material.
  — Buffalo National River, arkansasonline.com, 29 Oct. 2024
• But regardless of where the number lands, the issue has become a combustible topic as a growing number of Californians struggle with the rising cost of living.
  — Rob Nikolewski, The Mercury News, 4 Nov. 2024
• The bill directed state forest and fire-protection authorities to identify what combustible vegetation to exclude from the 5-foot zone.
  — Kathleen Pender, SFChronicle.com, 23 Nov. 2019
• Authorities say Amiot used a lighter to ignite combustible materials outside the main building, near a separate religious structure called a sukkah.
  — USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2019
• Vintage Trouble is a band that clearly views the music of the past — particularly Memphis soul and combustible rock of the ‘60s — as the source of goodness.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 22 Nov. 2019
• Swedish Match still makes 30% of its sales from combustible cigars.
  — Carol Ryan, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2020
• 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
• The tree’s sap is extremely combustible and could throw sparks.
  — Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 10 Dec. 2020
• The band’s passion is combustible; Kapetan said everyone was in tears by the end of the recording.
  — Alex Suskind, Vulture, 6 June 2024
• 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
• Even for a diehard Pavement fan like me, the combustible beauty of these tunes was mind-blowing.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2022
• The combustible components in safety matches are split between the match head and the striking strip on the side of the box (or book).
  — Keith McCafferty, Field & Stream, 3 June 2020
• Troops moved in the valleys and acrid smoke bellowed where shells had hit combustible targets.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2021
• 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
• In short, the Lebanon-Israel border is at present a combustible front at risk of explosion.
  — Asher Kaufman, The Conversation, 24 June 2024
• The combustible blend of fire and air makes for a dynamic partnership.
  — Liz Simmons, StyleCaster, 12 Aug. 2024
• Though given how combustible those two were on that film, a reunion probably wasn’t in the cards.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 26 June 2024
• Things are bad enough — combustible enough — and that’s before Gary and Jack ring up Ray and Michael and tell them that two of their rams have appeared on their side of the hill, dead.
  — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 31 Dec 2024