flammable
Example Sentences
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These findings don’t demonstrate that protected areas are inherently more flammable or that protection itself increases wildfire risk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
Whatever their environmental merit, such measures increase the amount of highly flammable fuel for fires, make it easier for blazes to spread and harder to extinguish.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
It’s an indication that decades of efforts to clear flammable plants around homes and fortify their exteriors against flames, heat and embers are being outpaced by increasingly extreme wildfire behavior and construction in fire-prone areas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
The fierce fires ravaging parts of France and Spain are the result of forests and vegetation becoming more flammable because of drought and a series of record-breaking heatwaves that have hit Western Europe since May.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
Chicago probably would have been resurrected in the image of its old — and dangerously flammable — self, if two events had not intervened.
From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy
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Power Suffix: -able
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