incendiary
adjective
used or adapted for setting property on fire.
incendiaries
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pluralof incendiary.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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To prevent this, he says, we must “block the arsonists on both sides at a distance: those who set fire to people’s souls, the incendiaries of the mind.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
“However imperfect the evidence, there is too much of it to ignore the apparent fact that incendiaries deliberately ignited the great fire.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 15, 2023
It was July 4, 1907, and the instigators were as striking as the incendiaries.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 18, 2021
"The sight of these incendiaries coming down, it was incredible, because we were looking at Townhill, and Townhill was looking across at us," she said.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2021
The expertise at distillation that medieval Islamic alchemists developed to produce alcohols and perfumes also let them distill petroleum into fractions, some of which proved to be even more powerful incendiaries.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
