How to Use incendiary in a Sentence

incendiary

1 of 2 adjective

• The fire was started by an incendiary bomb.
• The radical polemics of the panels must have seemed incendiary in the 1930s.
  — David Lyon, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2023
• No judge should go there, even if Trump’s statements are, true to form, careless, stupid, and incendiary.
  — The Editors, National Review, 18 Oct. 2023
• In 1990, Helms’s ad was denounced as false and incendiary.
  — William McGurn, WSJ, 22 Aug. 2022
• The two men were on the phone speaking about an incendiary march through a Catholic area in Northern Ireland by hard-line Protestants.
  — Alan Cowell, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
• What should be a riveting, incendiary tale fails to spark much tension save in a few scenes – or to match the power of Hamid’s author’s note.
  — Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Aug. 2022
• So is the fact that Trump can no longer use Twitter to rile up his supporters with incendiary falsehoods.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 23 July 2022
• The two parties reached a settlement just a day after the incendiary lawsuit was filed.
  — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2023
• The word was sufficiently incendiary that its impact was not dulled by the haze of anonymity.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2022
• On the rolling hills in the north of the province, the wheat fields have burned in wide stretches and smoke drifted over the woodland where Russian cluster and incendiary bombs had struck on a morning last week.
  — New York Times, 17 July 2022
• Kanye West fans are putting their feet down after his incendiary Hitler comments.
  — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 2 Dec. 2022
• More than 9,000 FuGo balloons were launched into the jet stream, complete with incendiary bombs designed to burn down cities and forests.
  — Kelsey D. Atherton, Popular Science, 6 Feb. 2023
• Their sonic bond helped shake up the scene’s propensity for incendiary disses and fatalism and made a fun brand of New York drill.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 8 Aug. 2023
• But the two were even more concerned about the inevitable threats that would come with such a politically incendiary case.
  — Daniel Klaidman, CBS News, 19 Jan. 2024
• Some Trump allies and voters said his long habit of incendiary and even offensive comments were part of his style.
  — Lalee Ibssa, ABC News, 8 Jan. 2024
• The sound of that album was just completely incendiary.
  — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 8 July 2022
• And six miles upriver was the busy port of Bladensburg, where in 1814 British troops — including Black Marines — had come ashore to start their incendiary rampage in the capital.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2023
• Oakland ripped out to a 32-21 halftime lead thanks to an incendiary quarter from Oakland guard Couraji West.
  — Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2024
• A lot of hyperbole … a lot of incendiary language to get attention.
  — Robert Legare, Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 5 July 2023
• Kilmeade put perhaps the most incendiary spin possible on recent job postings for armed IRS agents, something that the agency has long had.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2022
• But the stakes in this case, coupled with Trump's history of incendiary public statements, are far higher.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 12 Aug. 2023
• But the stakes in this case, coupled with Mr. Trump’s history of incendiary public statements, are far higher.
  — Alan Feuer, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
• Attackers then threw a grenade or incendiary bomb, starting a fire in the hall, according to Russian state media.
  — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 22 Mar. 2024
• The suit comes as West attempts to revive his music career after years of hate speech and incendiary behavior.
  — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2024
• The manager, whose desk was covered with printouts of the incendiary articles and Web posts, told them that the mere appearance of a terrorism link was too much for the bank, regardless of the truth.
  — David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• Potentially incendiary—beyond the field of play—is U.S. vs. Iran on Nov. 29.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2022
• History appears, too, with its wars and cities, its incendiary nature, its souvenir of ash.
  — Precious Okoyomon Anne Boyer, New York Times, 11 May 2023
• At the same time, the amplification of incendiary free speech for bad actors encourages mob rule.
  — Jaron Lanier, WIRED, 13 Feb. 2024
• Hamas quickly took advantage of these weekly protests, which drew tens of thousands of Gazans to the border to protest the blockade, to fire rockets and incendiary balloons toward Israel.
  — Foreign Affairs, 11 Dec. 2023
• Court records show that in at least one case, Thompson, who a federal judge would later sentence to just over five years in prison, offered to include incendiary ammunition as part of a sale to an informant.
  — Vernal Coleman, ProPublica, 27 Mar. 2024

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incendiary

2 of 2 noun

• The bombardier dropped four incendiaries, setting the factory ablaze.
  — National Geographic, 15 Apr. 2017
• But incendiaries, barrel bombs and missiles can do just as much damage to civilians as gas — which Assad didn’t necessarily use or intend to use in the future, anyway.
  — Leonid Bershidsky, The Denver Post, 22 Apr. 2017
• Hamas, in turn, has staged weekly riots at the Gaza barrier and unleashed flying incendiaries that have wreaked massive ecological damage.
  — WSJ, 6 Nov. 2018
• White phosphorus, along with other incendiaries, has been used by Syrian government forces battling insurgents in Aleppo and elsewhere.
  — Anne Barnard, New York Times, 10 June 2017
• White phosphorus, an incendiary, is normally packed in thin-walled casings; the casing is effective for dispersing chemical agents as well.
  — Stephen Budiansky, Nature, 5–11 Apr. 1984
• The British had also made jellied gasoline with rubber, and it was generally recognized to be an excellent incendiary because of its easy ignition, high heat of combustion, and controlled burning rate.
  — B. & F. M. Brodie, From Crossbow to H-Bomb, 1973
• The bombardier dropped four incendiaries, setting the factory ablaze.
  — National Geographic, 15 Apr. 2017
• But incendiaries, barrel bombs and missiles can do just as much damage to civilians as gas — which Assad didn’t necessarily use or intend to use in the future, anyway.
  — Leonid Bershidsky, The Denver Post, 22 Apr. 2017
• Hamas, in turn, has staged weekly riots at the Gaza barrier and unleashed flying incendiaries that have wreaked massive ecological damage.
  — WSJ, 6 Nov. 2018
• White phosphorus, along with other incendiaries, has been used by Syrian government forces battling insurgents in Aleppo and elsewhere.
  — Anne Barnard, New York Times, 10 June 2017
• White phosphorus, an incendiary, is normally packed in thin-walled casings; the casing is effective for dispersing chemical agents as well.
  — Stephen Budiansky, Nature, 5–11 Apr. 1984
• The British had also made jellied gasoline with rubber, and it was generally recognized to be an excellent incendiary because of its easy ignition, high heat of combustion, and controlled burning rate.
  — B. & F. M. Brodie, From Crossbow to H-Bomb, 1973

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024