Example Sentences

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He was described as a combustive mixture of "victimhood and arrogance".

From BBC • Dec. 15, 2023

The basement of a rowhouse in South Baltimore exploded Saturday morning due to the combustive combination of a live wire and leaking natural gas.

From Washington Times • Nov. 18, 2023

But really it’s packed with combustive overlays of rhythm — and a connection to musical history so deep and expansive that, in fact, it foresaw the future.

From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2022

Chancellor's combustive hits are a large part of what draws us to football.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 3, 2018

She was such a picture of the martyr by the slow social combustive process, that it almost seemed to him he could see a pale lambent aureole round her head.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 by Various