How to Use flammability in a Sentence

flammability

noun

• Balls of cotton wool were teased into fluffy piles—a fire hazard, given their flammability and the hot studio lights.
  — The Economist, 12 Dec. 2019
• The different clothing items fail to meet the US flammability standards.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 13 Feb. 2022
• The material’s easy flammability was a problem in all those places, too, writes Ria Misra for i09.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 6 Apr. 2017
• The material’s easy flammability was a problem in all those places, too, writes Ria Misra for i09.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 6 Apr. 2017
• During the sunrise show, visitors lie in silence in a 26 x 26–foot square box on beetle kill pine (sourced from local trees felled for their high flammability) with their eyes to the sky.
  — Camille Okhio, ELLE Decor, 24 Aug. 2022
• The United States is on fire again, not its wooden cities but its desiccated West, reaching new peaks of flammability as the planet warms.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Republic, 1 Dec. 2020
• On the low-flammability list are some of Oregon’s signature trees, like dogwood and Japanese maple.
  — oregonlive, 28 June 2021
• Some of Oregon’s signature trees, like dogwood and Japanese maple, are on the low-flammability list.
  — oregonlive, 20 Nov. 2021
• To use it, these scientists must stop their tokamaks completely, introduce the gas, then leave again because of the flammability.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 26 Dec. 2019
• In fact, other peroxides have been used in rocket fuel thanks to their flammability.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 4 June 2022
• The problem was that, for a city of Chicago’s size and flammability, the department didn’t have enough of these engines or any other equipment, or nearly enough firefighters.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
• According to the outlook, grasses and weeds have dried several weeks ahead of schedule, and the lack of brush growth may lead to dead outer branches and leaves, increasing their flammability.
  — Kellie Hwang, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 June 2021
• The problem today came from a leak in a line used to load liquid hydrogen fuel into the core-stage SLS rocket, posing a flammability hazard.
  — WIRED, 5 Sep. 2022
• The solace for those parties is that the fallback option will offer no shortage of offensive flammability and star power.
  — Marc Stein, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2020
• The additive is one of many used in plastic to improve quality or decrease flammability.
  — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 19 Dec. 2019
• Williams said that language referred to existing CPSC standards for things like flammability and lead.
  — Joe Hernandez, NPR, 2 May 2024
• Adaptive resilience includes retrofitting homes to reduce flammability and building in less fire-prone areas.
  — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 28 Aug. 2020
• Women's scarves do not meet the federal flammability standards for clothing textiles, posing a burn risk.
  — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 2 Dec. 2019
• These were recalled in July 2022because the fabric playhouses and play tents fail to meet industry flammability standards.
  — Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 17 Nov. 2022
• Flame retardants, as their name suggests, are added to products and building materials to reduce the risk of fire — and meet certain flammability standards.
  — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 25 Oct. 2019
• The surface texture of the fabric also affects flammability.
  — oregonlive, 15 Aug. 2022
• Lithium-ion batteries pose a special fire risk Electric vehicle fires are rare, but pose their own kind of flammability risk, and one that becomes heightened as EVs go mainstream.
  — Aurora Almendral, Quartz, 21 Feb. 2022
• Across burnable lands, the study stated the annual number of flammable nighttime hours increased by 110 hours over the past four decades — allowing five additional nights when flammability does not cease.
  — Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2022
• But Australia’s flammability has made a virtue of necessity.
  — Julie Cart, Discover Magazine, 9 Apr. 2022
• All buildings examined so far have failed the checks, which involve testing samples of their external cladding for flammability, a spokesman for the Department for Communities and...
  — Wiktor Szary, WSJ, 25 June 2017
• Despite its flammability, the U.S. military typically does not use white phosphorus as a weapon but rather for marking purposes or to create smoke screens.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 Sep. 2019
• The company notes that their boxes meet or exceed all requirements for a bassinet set by the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and have been tested for things like water resistance, air flow, and flammability.
  — Megan Friedman, Good Housekeeping, 30 Mar. 2017
• Carroll Pitts, transportation director for the Cobb County, Georgia, schools, recalled watching a school bus burn during a test in 1985, a full decade after scientists had demonstrated the flammability of polyurethane.
  — The Courier-Journal, 14 May 2018
• However, flammability comes from the polymer, not aluminum.
  — Alex Christian, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2024
• But then, due to problems with the spacecraft, this mission slipped from April to July and is now on hold indefinitely after serious problems were found with Starliner's parachutes and flammability.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 20 June 2023

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024