How to Use nonflammable in a Sentence

nonflammable

adjective

• Just make sure the space heater is placed on a hard, level, and nonflammable surface, away from children and pets.
  — Zachary Smith, cleveland, 19 Dec. 2022
• Each needs a clear space out of the wind and to be situated on a nonflammable surface away from low-hanging trees.
  — Washington Post, 17 July 2020
• The fire of that era also destroyed most of the Near North Side of the city, meaning that anything new had to be built in stone or other nonflammable materials.
  — Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 26 May 2022
• Novec is nonflammable and does not harm atmospheric ozone, and 3M says the gas has low toxicity.
  — Phil McKenna, NBC News, 21 Sep. 2022
• Midley set out to create a gas that was stable, nonflammable, noncorrosive and safe to breathe.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 18 May 2017
• The gantry, the high perch where play-by-play commentators call matches, had to be removed, clad in nonflammable material, and reinstalled.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
• Most modern airships use helium, a nonflammable but expensive and rare gas.
  — April White, Smithsonian, 22 Nov. 2019
• Always place them on a sturdy, nonflammable saucer or candleholder.
  — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Feb. 2023
• Immediately take the pages to a secure, nonflammable area like a concrete patio, your driveway, fireplace, or barbecue and set them on fire.
  — Habib Sadeghi, Health.com, 21 June 2018
• The catastrophe led the city to enact new codes: Decorations would now be nonflammable, and after the tragic example set by the club’s cramped revolving door, exit doors would now open outward.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2022
• Surface fires are the easiest to put out, with firefighters creating moats or breaks to keep the fire from spreading and then smothering it in a nonflammable material, most often clay.
  — Kristin Ohlson, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2011
• Its battery is nonflammable, bendable, inexpensive to make and, in theory, much longer lasting.
  — Tamara Chuang, The Denver Post, 18 June 2017
• One of the electrodes is mostly made of manganese oxide, but Chatter wouldn’t say anything about the composition of the other — just that there’s no lithium or cobalt involved, and that all the materials are nonflammable, non-toxic and inexpensive.
  — Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Nov. 2022
• And there is angry suspicion that lives could have been saved had relatively small sums of additional money been spent on Grenfell for nonflammable material.
  — Stephen Castle, New York Times, 24 June 2017
• Their thin, battery-like device consists of a nonflammable, copper-containing watery electrolyte sandwiched between two electrodes.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Feb. 2023
• Use nonflammable landscaping or high-moisture annuals and perennials.
  — Sven Berg, idahostatesman, 24 June 2017
• Fuel tanks were insulated with nonflammable material to prevent explosions, and backup systems were in place for various hydraulic and mechanical components.
  — Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2021
• His company finishes gas fireplace installations with lava rock or other loose, nonflammable material underneath the log, mainly for aesthetic reasons.
  — Paul Hodgins, Orange County Register, 20 Jan. 2017
• The synthetic fluorine compounds were odorless, colorless, nontoxic, nonflammable and incredibly durable.
  — Phil McKenna, NBC News, 21 Sep. 2022
• Attempts to install nonflammable barriers at vertical and horizontal intervals were ineffective in practice.
  — David D. Kirkpatrick, Danny Hakim and James Glanz, New York Times, 24 June 2017

Last Updated: 28 Aug 2024