burnable

Example Sentences

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While the creations from independent L.A. brand Lucky Star Candle are technically burnable, I prefer to display them around my house like beautiful wax sculptures whose sole purpose is alighting aesthetic pleasure within me.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2025

Question marks dot the landscape of burnable bushes and pushable boulders, with entire regions left unrevealed.

From New York Times • May 13, 2023

“Use good judgment and don’t light a fire close to burnable vegetation or overhanging branches,” Starkovich said.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 12, 2022

Across burnable lands globally, the annual number of flammable nighttime hours increased by 110 hours over the past four decades — allowing five additional nights when flammability does not cease, the study stated.

From Washington Post • Feb. 16, 2022

To use the doors for firewood is not uncommon with tenants, unless they are not burnable, though surely it is not a proper use of a leased house.

From Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman by Bolles, Albert Sidney