Example Sentences

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Insulation adds to the price tag, so the unit itself often acts as an amplifier for the whirring machinery and tiny combustions happening inside.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 10, 2022

The 2019 exhibition calendar was unusually crammed with heavily hyped shows, not to mention floating suspense and sudden combustions of fear and loathing.

From Washington Post • Dec. 9, 2019

New York signs a pair of lesser talents like, say, Jimmy Butler and Kemba Walker, clawing its way toward a semi-interesting mediocrity before lapsing into another of its periodic combustions.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 5, 2019

“The exit in a blaze of glory”, he says of other rockers’ early combustions, “is bullshit.”

From Economist • Sep. 27, 2016

Is it not a strange thing we cannot be quiet with the queen we have, but we must all fall into confusion and combustions about who shall come after?

From Reasons against the Succession of the House of Hanover with an Enquiry How far the Abdication of King James, supposing it to be Legal, ought to affect the Person of the Pretender by Defoe, Daniel