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.
• First and foremost, heat pumps don’t use combustion, so there’s no risk of carbon monoxide leaking into the home.
  — Dan Diclerico, Good Housekeeping, 4 Oct. 2021
• For now, EVs cost more to power than gasoline costs to fuel an internal combustion car that gets reasonable gas mileage.
  — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 21 Oct. 2021
• However, Haase admits this doesn’t mean the end of internal combustion at BMW.
  — Byjames Morris, Fortune Europe, 26 Nov. 2024
• Armed with that information, off-roading is a lot less likely to be marred by choking, toxic smoke that comes along with dangerous levels of combustion if users know which areas to avoid.
  — Kristin Shaw, Popular Science, 14 Nov. 2024
• Other methods involve capturing the gas at source — like the chimney of a cement factory — or removing it from the fuel before combustion.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 20 Oct. 2021
• Experts pointed to the leaking oil pipeline off the Orange County coast as just one example of the nonstop harm caused by drilling, production and combustion.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2021
• Ammonia is toxic to humans and can, during combustion, turn into laughing gas, which is worse for the environment than CO2.
  — Aurora Almendral, Quartz, 19 Oct. 2021
• On the two-stroke variant, both sides of the rotor each do combustion.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 13 Nov. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• As such, the braking components on EVs tend to wear at a much slower rate than those of cars with combustion engines.
  — Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 29 Sep. 2022
• But the electric car and the electric truck are at least as sleek and glamorous as their internal combustion forebears.
  — Bill McKibben, The New York Review of Books, 14 Sep. 2023
• The actress took on the role of Claire, a mother on the brink of personal combustion amid divorce, grief and parenting a teenage daughter.
  — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 16 Jan. 2024
• And the whirr of electric motors doesn’t assail your ears like the cacophony of combustion.
  — Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 30 Nov. 2022
• Tiny particles from the combustion of coal, oil and gas can reflect sunlight and spur the formation of clouds, shading the planet from the sun’s rays.
  — Shannon Osaka, Washington Post, 25 June 2024
• The road to this point has been long—and offers lessons to other countries racing to ditch gas-guzzling combustion engines.
  — Morgan Meaker, Wired, 18 Nov. 2021
• Gas and diesel engines both work through a process called internal combustion.
  — Michael Leamy, Discover Magazine, 2 Nov. 2024
• The sale of conventional combustion-engine cars will end in a little more than eight years.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2021
• In one ad, a woman watches a combustion car drive by and looks down, dejected, at a cord that looks a lot like the ones connected to E.V. chargers.
  — Amy Westervelt, The New Republic, 19 July 2023
• However, two weeks after the contractors set up shop, a fire broke out due to a combustion reaction in a bag of soil resting against the side of the house.
  — Isabel Slone, Architectural Digest, 26 June 2024

Last Updated: 1 Jan 2025