burnable

Example Sentences

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It’s a burnable approach for a pop star in 2025.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 2025

If all burnable material on the ground has been removed, a fire should run out of fuel when it reaches a fireline.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 9, 2023

Question marks dot the landscape of burnable bushes and pushable boulders, with entire regions left unrevealed.

From New York Times • May 13, 2023

Across burnable lands globally, 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, the study stated.

From Washington Post • Feb. 16, 2022

We all kept up great fires throughout our stay, burning all the burnable things we could find, without the smallest consideration for our successors, leaving it to our 15,000 long-haired oxen to supply the deficit.

From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 by Huc, Évariste Régis