How to Use flamethrower in a Sentence

flamethrower

noun
  • Not many people can go around with a flamethrower out on these streets.
    — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2022
  • That goal was achieved, and the flamethrower went up online a few days ago.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 29 Jan. 2018
  • One person could be seen with what appeared to be a flamethrower.
    — Kelsie Cairns, FOXNews.com, 22 May 2026
  • It was used in the movie, and even has burns from Ripley’s flamethrower.
    — Michael Calore, WIRED, 2 Sep. 2017
  • The 25-year-old flamethrower has three strikeouts and one walk.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 23 Dec. 2020
  • Long and his flamethrower were captured in a photo that went viral.
    — Essence.com, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Fire was blasting out of the building as if shot from giant flamethrowers.
    — New York Times, 11 June 2019
  • Kyle Kuzma got hot, like flamethrower hot, like first sip of boiling tea hot.
    — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2020
  • Senate Democrats took a flamethrower to a forest and now want to put out the fire with a squirt gun.
    — Stephen Miran, WSJ, 31 July 2022
  • Montas is part of a new wave of flamethrowers on the Bay Area horizon.
    — Daniel Brown, The Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2017
  • This is like handing a group of drunk teenagers a flamethrower and pointing them toward a lumber yard.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 14 Mar. 2017
  • For all this, though, Gorsuch isn’t a right-wing flamethrower like Robert Bork.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2017
  • The Yankees didn’t have enough flamethrowers in their bullpen in 2025.
    — Chris Kirschner, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Ross would be a nice addition as a flamethrower off the bench for Milwaukee.
    — Brian Sampson, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
  • And Roman Reigns Seth Rollins walked out first with a flamethrower.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
  • But here, the body isn’t a site of discomfort so much as destruction—a flamethrower ready to ignite.
    — Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Guerrero, the Marlins’ tall and lanky flamethrower seems to have hit a hot streak recently.
    — Matthew Defranks, Sun-Sentinel.com, 28 June 2018
  • When heated for extended windows of time, the sauce will blacken and the meats will look like they were cooked with a flamethrower.
    — Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Oct. 2022
  • At the event in Kasota, most of the players rode in tanks and in helicopters and fired flamethrowers.
    — Chris Tomasson, Twin Cities, 11 June 2017
  • The flamethrowers that were fired at old appliances, the tracers that lit up the sky, the teenage girl who had near perfect aim with a pistol.
    — Pipposts, Longreads, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Fonseca was able to raise his level, though, and started to find the corners rather than the back fence with his flamethrower of a forehand.
    — Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 29 May 2026
  • All his tossing around of Kevin Hart and riding on a bike with a flamethrower only adds to the movie's fun quotient.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Adam Nakai was the flamethrower in Santa Teresa’s third-quarter blitz.
    — Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The bounty hunter shot, stabbed and flamethrower-ed his way through the base full of Snowtroopers, with Grogu helping along the way.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 16 Apr. 2026
  • An ultra realistic model of a dragon is perched on its roof and spews out fireballs thanks to flamethrowers hidden in its jaws.
    — Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
  • The flamethrower rejoined the Orioles to begin the second half last year and has been perhaps one of the best starters in baseball since.
    — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 21 July 2024
  • The season finale for The Book of Boba Fett packed quite a (flamethrower) punch.
    — Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Local police have now cordoned off the sculpture to prevent more people with literal flamethrowers showing up to raise hell.
    — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 21 Apr. 2026
  • In the video, someone is seen wearing a mask and holding up the possible flamethrower and aiming it overhead with flames spewing into the air.
    — Kelsie Cairns, FOXNews.com, 22 May 2026
  • The mother of one of the teens, Ashley Gainey, said Abrams frequently sprayed the flamethrower to scare off guests at her home.
    — Corbin Bolies, sun-sentinel.com, 9 Dec. 2021

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