How to Use combustible in a Sentence

combustible

adjective
  • The fuel is highly combustible.
  • This was the most combustible part of my life.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
  • The movie felt cold yet combustible, and there was that lunatic car chase.
    — James Gray, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Choose other mulches, or keep any combustible mulches at least five feet from your home.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Swedish Match still makes 30% of its sales from combustible cigars.
    — Carol Ryan, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2020
  • That could mean making the blood inside their head combustible.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The tree’s sap is extremely combustible and could throw sparks.
    — Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 10 Dec. 2020
  • And outlaw lovers in a wild and combustible romance!
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2025
  • And outlaw lovers in a wild and combustible romance!
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 4 Feb. 2026
  • And outlaw lovers in a wild and combustible romance!
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 4 Mar. 2026
  • And outlaw lovers in a wild and combustible romance!
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 15 May 2026
  • Super sharp lawn darts, combustible old mini cars, balls, swim floats.
    — Mattie Kahn, Glamour, 9 Apr. 2019
  • Lumber mills are major sources of combustible dust.
    — ABC News, 26 May 2026
  • Lumber mills are major sources of combustible dust.
    — ABC News, 15 June 2026
  • But a combustible mixture of poverty and drug abuse hinted at the plague to come.
    — Laura Ungar, The Courier-Journal, 14 Dec. 2017
  • The fires are the result of a confluence of combustible trends.
    — Jeff Young, Newsweek, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Troops moved in the valleys and acrid smoke bellowed where shells had hit combustible targets.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2021
  • More frequent heat waves and droughts add to the combustible potential.
    — Jordan Thomas, Twin Cities, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Areas of the country are very hot and dry, and many native plants are fire prone and combustible.
    — Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 9 Sep. 2019
  • The atmosphere around youth and high school sports is already combustible.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 14 June 2022
  • So when fires do erupt, a huge amount of vegetation goes up in smoke over a vast, combustible area.
    — Laignee Barron, Time, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Luckily, the stove can run on just about anything combustible.
    — Joe Jackson, Outside Online, 10 Aug. 2020
  • And the two of them now in combat could lead to a very combustible situation.
    — Fox News, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Ghost promises of the two combustible forces igniting venues.
    — Shaheem Reid, Billboard, 21 July 2022
  • Tension builds as War Pony makes its way to a combustible finish.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 May 2022
  • The building was gutted as the fire was fed by highly combustible glues inside the store.
    — Carol Cormaci, La Cañada Valley Sun, 23 Sep. 2019
  • The combustible blend of fire and air makes for a dynamic partnership.
    — Liz Simmons, StyleCaster, 12 Aug. 2024
  • There’s no way around the fact that at some point, this could become a combustible situation.
    — Jeremy Woo, SI.com, 11 July 2019
  • Though given how combustible those two were on that film, a reunion probably wasn’t in the cards.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 26 June 2024
  • Drier plants make more combustible fuel for wildfires.
    — Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 15 Aug. 2025

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