How to Use combustion in a Sentence

combustion

noun

• This ratio of air to fuel results in better combustion.
• Combustion may occur at high temperatures.
• Air pollution caused due to combustion of coal alone contributed to half of these deaths.
  — Disha Shetty, Forbes, 25 June 2021
• Smoke smells can occur if the exhaust vent is blocked, forcing the combustion exhaust from the furnace to escape into the home.
  — Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Jan. 2025
• Spontaneous combustion might be the best way to describe the Franklin High’s bats on Monday night.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2021
• Researchers are already monitoring soil to see what kinds of heavy metals and other toxins have seeped in during the combustion process.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 14 Jan. 2025
• An internal combustion generator is not an option here, even with your idea to redirect the exhaust fumes.
  — Star Tribune, 2 July 2021
• Oxidizers are added to produce oxygen to support the fuel's combustion.
  — David Bressan, Forbes, 4 July 2021
• The British marque unveiled its final combustion sports car, the Emira, on Tuesday.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 6 July 2021
• Plug-in-hybrid electric vehicle, which uses both internal-combustion and electric power sources and has a battery that can be charged by plugging in.
  — Sharon Carty, Car and Driver, 7 July 2021
• Achieving that will require a near total shift from internal combustion motors to electric traction motors for transportation.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Dec. 2024
• Today’s seafarers no longer know their way around wind; conventional combustion-engine ships mostly take the shortest straight-line route to their destination.
  — New York Times, 24 June 2021
• In short, the likely idea is that conventional combustion engines are a notable contributor to adverse climate impacts.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 28 June 2021
• Instead, mute conveyances happily trundling along on city streets and highways, the roars, barks and pops of internal combustion engines a distant memory. Not so fast.
  — Morgan Korn, ABC News, 3 July 2021
• Internal-combustion engines in cars waste around 75 percent of the energy produced burning gasoline.
  — New York Times, 23 June 2021
• The Fuxing trains deployed on the nine-station Lhasa-Nyingchi line are powered by both internal combustion and electric engines.
  — Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 30 June 2021
• On the two-stroke variant, both sides of the rotor each do combustion.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 13 Nov. 2023
• As the combustion gases flow from the engine over the spike, the curve acts as one side of the bell and the surrounding air as the outside curve.
  — David Szondy, New Atlas, 22 Dec. 2024
• As the engine heats up, combustion melts the plastic fuselage.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024
• That shows internal combustion trucks still aren’t stuck in a rut.
  — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 13 Dec. 2022
• The big news is confirmation that the MC20's engine will be the combustion-engine choice for this coupe.
  — Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 15 Sep. 2022
• That combustion process inevitably made noise, and that noise came to define the background soundscape of our roads, cities, and day-to-day life.
  — Christophe Haubursin, Vox, 3 July 2024
• To many gearheads, the thought of a muscle car without combustion-engine noise and gas smells is heresy.
  — CBS News, 18 Aug. 2022
• It’s uniquely formed by the combustion of things such as gas in cars, coal burning power plants and the wildfires from over the summer.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Nov. 2021
• And then, when the spark returns, combustion can take place in the exhaust system in addition to the cylinders.
  — Ray Magliozzi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2021
• This heated oxygen mixes with the smoke and is burned again in a process called secondary combustion.
  — Renee Freemon Mulvihill, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Aug. 2022
• About two thirds of the clinker emissions are released by the limestone when heated while the rest come from the combustion of fuels to create the heat.
  — Yusuf Khan, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2023
• The cause of the fire was determined to be random combustion of kitchen rags, according to fire marshal.
  — Tony Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 19 July 2024
• Steenburgen: The combustion between the two of them was so intense.
  — Rob Turbovsky, Vulture, 26 July 2021
• For lovers of the brand’s history, the lack of screaming V6, V8 or V12 internal combustion power could be a turnoff.
  — James Morris, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 12 Feb 2025