flammable
Example Sentences
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Hearing board members echoed fears from the community about the potential release of ammonia, a flammable and highly toxic gas that was used as a refrigerant for Lineage’s freezers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 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
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
According to a report by the government news agency Andina, external, neighbours said unknown individuals had set fire to motorcycles parked outside, with the flames spreading rapidly through flammable mattress-making materials.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
It spun through the air, trailing flammable fluid.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
Vocabulary lists containing flammable
Power Suffix: -able
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