How to Use napalm in a Sentence

napalm

noun

• Her wounds from the napalm, which left her in the hospital for more than a year, still cause her pain.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Feb. 2021
• One was of a nine-year-old girl running naked, and in terror, away from a napalm strike.
  — James Fallows, The Atlantic, 17 Feb. 2018
• In late 1944, thousands of bombs packed with napalm reached the Marianas.
  — Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2021
• The napalm to my Teresa, the Jovani to my Luann, the quiet woman to my Shannon.
  — Lydia Price, PEOPLE.com, 1 July 2019
• Watching Platoon put me in the mood to blast some napalm into the projection booth.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 6 Mar. 2021
• Van Pelt Library to watch a dog being burned in a protest over the use of napalm (which was deployed widely during the Vietnam War).
  — Joey Lautrup, Time, 21 Oct. 2021
• But curtain calls are joyful and cheerful, and this song was like napalm sprayed over the audience.
  — Ellise Pierce, star-telegram, 5 Sep. 2017
• One man was charged for posting a crude napalm recipe that is widely available online.
  — NBC News, 18 June 2020
• Or the photo of Kim Phuc, the naked Vietnamese girl fleeing the napalm that has just incinerated her home.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2021
• Nashville hot chicken will come in four spice levels: naked, novice, Nashville and napalm.
  — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 24 July 2020
• The image is iconic: A naked, 9-year-old girl fleeing napalm bombs during the Vietnam War, tears streaming down her face.
  — Mark Scott and Mike Isaac, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2016
• The napalm was scheduled to arrive in Indiana over the weekend, or Monday at the latest, said the Burlington Northern spokesman.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2023
• The jet, carrying napalm, was hit by antiaircraft fire and blew up.
  — — Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2017
• In 2016, the social network removed an iconic photo from the Vietnam War, in which a young naked girl is running from a napalm attack.
  — Alyssa Newcomb /, NBC News, 5 July 2018
• Dow stopped producing napalm for the U.S. military that year.
  — New York Times, 23 June 2021
• What remained looked like the hillsides of Vietnam after a napalm strike, ghostly gray moonscapes devoid of life.
  — TIME.com, 4 Oct. 2017
• In 1969 opponents of the Vietnam war, who had sought and failed to call a shareholder vote to force Dow Chemical to stop making napalm, appealed.
  — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
• Consider the example of the iconic news photograph of a young naked girl running from a napalm bomb during the Vietnam War.
  — Julia Angwin, Propublica, and Hannes Grassegger, Ars Technica, 28 June 2017
• The Rockies got blasted by the Giants in the first game of a doubleheader on Monday—like, dipped in napalm and thrown into a gasoline fire levels of destroyed.
  — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 16 July 2019
• Later, his father found black, ashy residue on his car, because Sabottka had tried to make napalm bombs out of a plastic bag to drip onto his toy soldiers.
  — Steve Knopper, Billboard, 10 Mar. 2023
• Along the way, some pretty inspiring people came into view, such as Kim Phuc, best know as the girl in the picture of a Vietnamese child burned by napalm, on a day that was to define her life, but not her spirit.
  — CBS News, 15 Mar. 2020
• Essentially jellied gasoline, napalm sticks to skin on contact and burns off flesh.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 June 2019
• Already, the Berrigans each had served years-long prison sentences for stealing hundreds of draft cards and destroying them with homemade napalm.
  — Erin Cox, Washington Post, 24 May 2022
• How much money did Dow Chemical make being at war making napalm?
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2021
• Running on Empty The movie follows a pair of '60s radicals who go on the run after destroying a napalm factory.
  — Patrick Cooley, cleveland.com, 23 Aug. 2017
• Even with Max Scherzer not looking like his usual dominant self and with a bullpen that tends to spray napalm all over leads, Washington should still have the edge over a Brewers squad playing over its head.
  — The Si Staff, SI.com, 1 Oct. 2019
• Instead of folksy sepia and black-and-white, there are vivid jade-green jungles and horrific blooms of napalm that explode into orange and then gradually turn smoky black.
  — David Kamp, HWD, 18 July 2017
• Enough chemists would have refused to make napalm that the cost of producing the explosive would have become prohibitively high.
  — Zachary D. Carter, The New Republic, 17 June 2021
• The company halted its production of napalm a year later.
  — New York Times, 11 Jan. 2020
• Should the historic photograph of a naked Vietnamese child fleeing a napalm bombing be removed as child pornography?
  — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2020

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024