combustible
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Contemporary Examples of combustible
This means not offering provocative remarks on a combustible topic like immigration, which is sure to make them enemies.
Children have fantasy lives so rich and combustible that rigging them with lies is like putting a propeller on a rocket.
This combustible brew of race, class, and economic anxieties bubbles all too closely to the surface.
The mix of al Qaeda in the Maghreb, Ansar al Dine, and the Tuareg rebels is combustible.
It runs on combustible poison—ammonia and pressurized hydrogen.
Historical Examples of combustible
In half an hour, the huts were stripped of their most combustible material.
At the Point of the BayonetG. A. Henty
The other gas which issues into this atmosphere is said to be the combustible gas.
An Elementary Study of ChemistryWilliam McPherson
"Well, Tom, we'll try and get some combustible or other," said Paganel.
In Search of the CastawaysJules Verne
Almost every man's and every woman's imagination is combustible on one side or another.
The Faith DoctorEdward Eggleston
I know that there are combustible materials there, and that they wait the torch only.
The Writings of Thomas JeffersonThomas Jefferson