How to Use inflammable in a Sentence

inflammable

adjective

• The silky, inflammable scent of lighter fluid hit first, then the Whitesnake.
  — Kent Russell, Harper's Magazine, 15 Sep. 2020
• The gas was said to be non-inflammable and non-explosive.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 11 Jan. 2022
• This is because of the inflammable hydrogen used in the Zeppelin.
  — Kurt Chandler, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2017
• Rust has covered parts of the tanker and the inert gas that prevents the tanks from gathering inflammable gases, has leaked out.
  — Washington Post, 10 July 2020
• High levels of methane gas and coal dust, both highly inflammable, make mines hazardous.
  — Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2021
• Each soldier engaged in this form of attack has strapped to his back a tank containing an inflammable liquid under high pressure.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 30 Sep. 2020
• The mighty sequoia, protected by thick bark and with its foliage typically high above the flames, was once considered nearly inflammable.
  — Brian Melley, Anchorage Daily News, 23 July 2022
• His role is subsumed into that of the fictitious and flamboyant—though thankfully not inflammable—Amelia Wren (Felicity Jones).
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2019
• By the way, the top stories on that January day in 1952 were a White House nomination for Vatican envoy withdrawing amid controversy, and a recall of inflammable sweaters.
  — Brian Stelter, CNN, 13 Jan. 2022
• The more inflammable nitrogen present the less flammable oxygen, helping reduce the possibility of fuel tank explosions.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 26 June 2020
• The tenants were essentially living on the top of a highly inflammable firetrap, one in which mass evacuation was impossible, as was evidenced when a few of victims filmed their last moments with their phones.
  — Henry Porter, The Hive, 16 June 2017
• It can be synthesized through a chemical process using acetic anhydride, a high-inflammable and colorless liquid used to make fibers, plastics, pharmaceuticals, dyes, and explosives.
  — Dario Sabaghi, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022
• Although civil protection and the response to fires in the area have improved over the years, bureaucratic hurdles aimed at protecting Mediterranean scrubland mean that inflammable vegetation is often not cleared, creating fire hazards, experts say.
  — Gaia Pianigiani, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2021
• Offshore platforms are notoriously hazardous locations, dense with heavy equipment and handling large quantities of highly inflammable liquids and gases.
  — University Of Houston Energy Fellows, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
• There are also major safety issues particularly for low-income residential areas in cities where owners have small, inflammable petrol generators in proximity to their apartments or shared living spaces.
  — Yinka Adegoke, Quartz Africa, 30 Sep. 2019
• An artificial strait without nature's currents will reduce the kind of accidents that bedevil ships passing through the Bosphorus's treacherous contours, especially tankers carrying huge amounts of inflammable petrochemicals.
  — Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 17 May 2021
• Some jurisdictions have started mandating the installation of such electric appliances in new construction, threatening the power of the incumbent inflammable technology.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 24 June 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024