combustible
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Other areas had gone without fire for more than 100 years, allowing dead wood, shrubs, and other combustible material to accumulate.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
A City of Edinburgh Council report later found a previous building survey carried out in May 2022 identified a series of issues, including "combustible cladding and insulation, combustible decking and internal fire-stopping issues".
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Automakers are also racing to shift away from combustible engines under EU rules that call for 90 percent of all cars sold in the bloc to be electric by 2035.
From Barron's ● May 19, 2026
Reliant on imports, Iran also faces a gasoline crisis—which is politically combustible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
But all of a sudden, more than you know, he’s outside somewhere, sometimes even alone, crossing the streets, scaling rocks, wrestling with dogs, swimming in pits, getting into everything mechanical and combustible and toxic.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
That includes cleaning your gutters, removing any combustibles from around your house, making sure that embers can’t enter into your roof or your other cavities within your building.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025
The company said the number of consumers of non-combustible products grew by 900,000 in the first quarter, but growth in the U.S. combustibles market staggered.
From Reuters ● Jun. 6, 2023
Renaldo said workers were using blowtorches on the building’s exterior before the fire and that heat may have transferred through brick or mortar to the interior and ignited paper or other combustibles.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 2023
But with battery fires, he said, “we go from no problem whatsoever to a fully involved fire. If there are any combustibles around that bike, they will be on fire in a second.”
From Slate ● Feb. 20, 2023
We formed a ring around the base of the tree, and one by one deposited our combustibles at the trunk.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Vocabulary lists containing combustible
Automobiles
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100 Great Words from "Fahrenheit 451" -- Part I Vocabulary
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The Great Fire
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