How to Use flamethrower in a Sentence

flamethrower

noun

• It was used in the movie, and even has burns from Ripley’s flamethrower.
  — Michael Calore, WIRED, 2 Sep. 2017
• His tanks and flamethrowers, the AK-47s and M-16s, the bump stocks and Russian tanks—look upon all of it!
  — Michael Paterniti, GQ, 7 Mar. 2018
• That goal was achieved, and the flamethrower went up online a few days ago.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 29 Jan. 2018
• The 25-year-old flamethrower has three strikeouts and one walk.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 23 Dec. 2020
• But the real highlight is, as seen above, the flamethrower.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 9 Mar. 2017
• Senate Democrats took a flamethrower to a forest and now want to put out the fire with a squirt gun.
  — Stephen Miran, WSJ, 31 July 2022
• Montas is part of a new wave of flamethrowers on the Bay Area horizon.
  — Daniel Brown, The Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2017
• Not many people can go around with a flamethrower out on these streets.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2022
• For all this, though, Gorsuch isn’t a right-wing flamethrower like Robert Bork.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2017
• The season finale for The Book of Boba Fett packed quite a (flamethrower) punch.
  — Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2022
• The simplest are armed with flamethrowers and machine guns.
  — Nate Ralph, WIRED, 24 Nov. 2008
• The 23-year-old flamethrower is the youngest pitcher in the Majors and overpowered one of the top offenses in the league.
  — The Enquirer, 18 Sep. 2022
• The mother of one of the teens, Ashley Gainey, said Abrams frequently sprayed the flamethrower to scare off guests at her home.
  — Corbin Bolies, sun-sentinel.com, 9 Dec. 2021
• The Twins planned to use the flamethrower as a reliever this season, but the 21-year-old is expected to be a starter in the long term.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 5 Feb. 2020
• At the event in Kasota, most of the players rode in tanks and in helicopters and fired flamethrowers.
  — Chris Tomasson, Twin Cities, 11 June 2017
• Fire was blasting out of the building as if shot from giant flamethrowers.
  — New York Times, 11 June 2019
• All his tossing around of Kevin Hart and riding on a bike with a flamethrower only adds to the movie's fun quotient.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2018
• The flamethrower rejoined the Orioles to begin the second half last year and has been perhaps one of the best starters in baseball since.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 21 July 2024
• To be clear, Portman is never going to be a flamethrower.
  — Byron McCauley, Cincinnati.com, 6 Feb. 2018
• Kyle Kuzma got hot, like flamethrower hot, like first sip of boiling tea hot.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2020
• Long and his flamethrower were captured in a photo that went viral.
  — Essence.com, 16 Oct. 2017
• The flamethrowers that were fired at old appliances, the tracers that lit up the sky, the teenage girl who had near perfect aim with a pistol.
  — Pipposts, Longreads, 18 Dec. 2019
• Guerrero, the Marlins’ tall and lanky flamethrower seems to have hit a hot streak recently.
  — Matthew Defranks, Sun-Sentinel.com, 28 June 2018
• This is like handing a group of drunk teenagers a flamethrower and pointing them toward a lumber yard.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 14 Mar. 2017
• When heated for extended windows of time, the sauce will blacken and the meats will look like they were cooked with a flamethrower.
  — Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Oct. 2022
• Ross would be a nice addition as a flamethrower off the bench for Milwaukee.
  — Brian Sampson, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
• Adam Nakai was the flamethrower in Santa Teresa’s third-quarter blitz.
  — Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024
• So, when their backs are turned, that's your cue to hit the flamethrower or machine gun function on your instrument of death.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 17 Sep. 2021
• And the Boring Company famously sold a flamethrower, which seemed to start as a throwaway line to help the company sell hats.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2024
• There is the constant presence of a flamethrower, Bada$$ standing atop a vehicle, and a crowd of beautiful women dancing along to the anthem.
  — Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 9 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024