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.
• 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
• It’s uniquely formed by the combustion of things such as gas in cars, coal burning power plants and the wildfires from over the summer.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Nov. 2021
• 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
• The road to this point has been long—and offers lessons to other countries racing to ditch gas-guzzling combustion engines.
  — Morgan Meaker, Wired, 18 Nov. 2021
• Gas and diesel engines both work through a process called internal combustion.
  — Michael Leamy, Discover Magazine, 2 Nov. 2024
• The sale of conventional combustion-engine cars will end in a little more than eight years.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2021
• 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
• The fly ash, a byproduct of coal combustion, was mixed with soil to create mini-islands in the lake that allow water to permeate.
  — Emily Wang Fujiyama, ajc, 15 Nov. 2022
• Finally, the car releases spent combustion gases to the atmosphere through its tailpipe.
  — Michael Leamy, Discover Magazine, 2 Nov. 2024
• That said, Harris has not called for the eventual elimination of internal combustion vehicles despite such plans in 12 states.
  — Vox Staff, Vox, 24 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024