Example sentences for: combustible

How can you use “combustible” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The top-front NYT story is basically a recap of the law-enforcement controversy plaguing Janet Reno, who pledged yesterday to find the truth behind the now-public FBI tapes that show agents firing combustible tear gas rounds at a building on the Waco compound.

  • Both the NYT and LAT front a Waco revelation made yesterday by a California congressman: Information showing that the FBI used combustible tear gas canisters at Waco has been in the DOJ's possession "for years" and was even sent to Congress no later than 1995.

  • Back to those MIGS for a minute: Note that our "threat reduction" money isn't being used to buy back similarly capable aircraft, such as the F-15s in the inventories of such combustible countries as Pakistan and Turkey.

  • Even though he is the personification of the company, an inside WP story observes that defense lawyers might have viewed him as so "prickly and combustible" as to undermine his own case.

  • The two main fuel-reduction methods are mechanical removal of combustible materials and controlled or “prescribed” burning (Figure 2).


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