How to Use combustion in a Sentence

combustion

noun

• This ratio of air to fuel results in better combustion.
• Combustion may occur at high temperatures.
• Their gains could come at the expense of the Midwest, which would lose internal combustion production jobs.
  — New York Times, 8 Feb. 2022
• Electric motors are much smaller and more efficient than combustion engines.
  — John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022
• Internal-combustion engines emit pollutants that can cause cancer, asthma, heart disease, and birth defects.
  — John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022
• Oshkosh has also engineered its trucks so internal combustion engines can be retrofitted with electric batteries down the road.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 9 Feb. 2022
• However, 12 months later, the industry has come to realize that the transition away from combustion will not happen overnight.
  — Sarwant Singh, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
• Some will tell you that electric cars are easier to engineer than those with combustion engines, opening the door to novel entrants, but that’s not necessarily the case.
  — Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 6 Feb. 2022
• On the two-stroke variant, both sides of the rotor each do combustion.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 13 Nov. 2023
• As the engine heats up, combustion melts the plastic fuselage.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024
• That shows internal combustion trucks still aren’t stuck in a rut.
  — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 13 Dec. 2022
• The big news is confirmation that the MC20's engine will be the combustion-engine choice for this coupe.
  — Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 15 Sep. 2022
• That combustion process inevitably made noise, and that noise came to define the background soundscape of our roads, cities, and day-to-day life.
  — Christophe Haubursin, Vox, 3 July 2024
• To many gearheads, the thought of a muscle car without combustion-engine noise and gas smells is heresy.
  — CBS News, 18 Aug. 2022
• This heated oxygen mixes with the smoke and is burned again in a process called secondary combustion.
  — Renee Freemon Mulvihill, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Aug. 2022
• About two thirds of the clinker emissions are released by the limestone when heated while the rest come from the combustion of fuels to create the heat.
  — Yusuf Khan, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2023
• The cause of the fire was determined to be random combustion of kitchen rags, according to fire marshal.
  — Tony Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 19 July 2024
• For lovers of the brand’s history, the lack of screaming V6, V8 or V12 internal combustion power could be a turnoff.
  — James Morris, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
• As such, the braking components on EVs tend to wear at a much slower rate than those of cars with combustion engines.
  — Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 29 Sep. 2022
• But the electric car and the electric truck are at least as sleek and glamorous as their internal combustion forebears.
  — Bill McKibben, The New York Review of Books, 14 Sep. 2023
• The actress took on the role of Claire, a mother on the brink of personal combustion amid divorce, grief and parenting a teenage daughter.
  — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 16 Jan. 2024
• And the whirr of electric motors doesn’t assail your ears like the cacophony of combustion.
  — Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 30 Nov. 2022
• Tiny particles from the combustion of coal, oil and gas can reflect sunlight and spur the formation of clouds, shading the planet from the sun’s rays.
  — Shannon Osaka, Washington Post, 25 June 2024
• In one ad, a woman watches a combustion car drive by and looks down, dejected, at a cord that looks a lot like the ones connected to E.V. chargers.
  — Amy Westervelt, The New Republic, 19 July 2023
• However, two weeks after the contractors set up shop, a fire broke out due to a combustion reaction in a bag of soil resting against the side of the house.
  — Isabel Slone, Architectural Digest, 26 June 2024
• According to Reuters, combustion models still make up about 85% of the auto maker's sales.
  — Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 17 Nov. 2023
• There was not a hint of combustion, even after the mechanical fuel pump had filled the carburetor float bowls and filled the garage with fumes.
  — Larry Webster, Car and Driver, 23 Aug. 2023
• Internal combustion engines, of course, are on the way out, but as long as there are gas stations, there are people who will want to buy gas, and juice up rides like these, for a price.
  — Josh Max, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
• Ramjets are air-breathing engines that suck in air at high speeds and then mix it with gasses produced by fuel combustion.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 12 Aug. 2022
• Adding an extra combustion and power stroke to each revolution of the crankshaft means more horsepower to the wheels – and could also mean a more efficient internal combustion engine.
  — New Atlas, 19 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024