How to Use incendiary in a Sentence

incendiary

1 of 2 adjective
  • The fire was started by an incendiary bomb.
  • The floats were more incendiary still.
    — Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Rivers’ claims were even more incendiary.
    — Bobby Burack Outkick, FOXNews.com, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Your posts didn’t seem incendiary.
    — Marlow Stern, Variety, 6 May 2026
  • Cannon fire tore through its upper deck before incendiary shells sparked a fire aboard.
    — CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Her rhetoric around Jews and Israel has grown even more incendiary.
    — Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The spark between them is instant, and incendiary.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025
  • One after another, each was more incendiary than the next.
    — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 2 June 2026
  • Kanye West fans are putting their feet down after his incendiary Hitler comments.
    — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The word was sufficiently incendiary that its impact was not dulled by the haze of anonymity.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2022
  • The two parties reached a settlement just a day after the incendiary lawsuit was filed.
    — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Fireworks or incendiary devices of any kind.
    — Haadiza Ogwude, Cincinnati Enquirer, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Fireworks or incendiary devices of any kind.
    — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 28 Aug. 2025
  • History appears, too, with its wars and cities, its incendiary nature, its souvenir of ash.
    — Precious Okoyomon Anne Boyer, New York Times, 11 May 2023
  • But the two were even more concerned about the inevitable threats that would come with such a politically incendiary case.
    — Daniel Klaidman, CBS News, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Some of the most intense—and mysterious—of these were giant incendiary darts.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 14 May 2026
  • Since then, Lang has frequently staged incendiary protests in other cities across the country.
    — Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 7 Jan. 2026
  • A lot of hyperbole … a lot of incendiary language to get attention.
    — Robert Legare, Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 5 July 2023
  • So is the fact that Trump can no longer use Twitter to rile up his supporters with incendiary falsehoods.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 23 July 2022
  • That’s when Mace gave an incendiary presentation on the House floor.
    — Moira Donegan, New Yorker, 9 June 2026
  • The radical polemics of the panels must have seemed incendiary in the 1930s.
    — David Lyon, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2023
  • French has a history of incendiary social media posts.
    — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Clips of Kirk’s most incendiary comments spread rapidly online.
    — Stephanie Murray, AZCentral.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The incendiary device landed in a grassy area near a protester’s foot, about 15 feet from sheriff’s deputies.
    — Alene Tchekmedyian, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2026
  • What should be a riveting, incendiary tale fails to spark much tension save in a few scenes – or to match the power of Hamid’s author’s note.
    — Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Aug. 2022
  • The device that officers initially believed to be incendiary turned out to be a jar of mouthwash with a rag inside.
    — Jesse Zanger, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2026
  • At the same time, the amplification of incendiary free speech for bad actors encourages mob rule.
    — Jaron Lanier, WIRED, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Others were shocked that a prominent dealmaker would wade into such a painful and incendiary issue in a public way.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 19 Oct. 2023
  • These energetic bursts are typically unleashed by the incendiary death of a star, or when it is shredded by a black hole.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Elon Musk addressed the rally via video link and displayed his own long-standing penchant for incendiary remarks.
    — Niall Stanage, The Hill, 16 Sep. 2025

incendiary

2 of 2 noun
  • The bombardier dropped four incendiaries, setting the factory ablaze.
    — National Geographic, 15 Apr. 2017
  • His many enemies defined him as a reckless and deceitful incendiary.
    — Alan Taylor, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Hamas, in turn, has staged weekly riots at the Gaza barrier and unleashed flying incendiaries that have wreaked massive ecological damage.
    — WSJ, 6 Nov. 2018
  • But incendiaries, barrel bombs and missiles can do just as much damage to civilians as gas — which Assad didn’t necessarily use or intend to use in the future, anyway.
    — Leonid Bershidsky, The Denver Post, 22 Apr. 2017
  • White phosphorus, along with other incendiaries, has been used by Syrian government forces battling insurgents in Aleppo and elsewhere.
    — Anne Barnard, New York Times, 10 June 2017
  • After two nights of intensive bombing with high explosives and incendiaries, several square miles burn for hours at hundreds of degrees Centigrade, an inferno consuming every living creature.
    — Matthew Sturgis, The New York Review of Books, 21 Mar. 2019
  • The handful of structures that survived the inferno, including the doctors’ wood-frame residences, were torched the next night, after the incendiaries came back and took a battering ram to the Women’s Hospital.
    — John Freeman Gill, New York Times, 8 May 2020

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