combustible
Example Sentences
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The talented but combustible Italian established a fine reputation at Brighton and is available having left Marseille by mutual consent in February.
From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026
If those Lakers — combustible and bored but built better than every other team on the planet at the time — could turn the triple play, so can Roberts’ drama-free superteam.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2026
Yet those insulating materials may be combustible, as in the Grenfell fire.
From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026
Mr. Homan defused a combustible situation by adjusting the style and substance of immigration enforcement.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
It was difficult to think of the ever-combative, highly combustible champion of the American Revolution as extraneous and invisible, but that is what the vice presidency had made him.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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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