fire-resistant

Example Sentences

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Earlier this year, authorities announced plans to phase out bamboo in favour of sturdier, fire-resistant steel, citing bamboo's combustibility and deterioration over time.

From BBC

Some impacts of climate change can be addressed through efforts like building fire-resistant homes, reducing overfishing and building infrastructure that can with withstand intense storms.

From Seattle Times

Many are inclined to band together, perhaps by enlisting a builder, or a few, to erect several houses at lower prices — a more fire-resistant, climate-change-era version of their 1990s development.

From Washington Post

There is bipartisan agreement that the state needs to take action and restore these forests to a more natural and fire-resistant condition.

From Seattle Times

This meant that we removed the biggest, most valuable, most fire-resistant trees, old-growth nobles that take centuries to regrow, and left behind whole middle schools of plantation-style stands.

From New York Times