Sample sentences for COMBUSTION

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Definition

the act of burning

or metaphorically:

a state of violent disturbance and excitement

Increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is produced by combustion of fossil fuels, coal, and natural gas.

combustion = burning

Unlike electric cars, gasoline-powered cars have an internal combustion engine that burns gasoline.

combustion = burning (of fuel)

There is a danger of spontaneous combustion of these ingredients.

combustion = burning

combustion grew until revolt was unavoidable
The can of tear gas sails toward us from the cops. It lands beside the patrol car. I jump off and pick up the can. Smoke whizzes out the end of it. Any second it'll combust.
Angie Thomas -- The Hate U Give

combust = start to burn

If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him.... Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of non-combustible data...
Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451

combustible = burnable

He was still a machine and they knew that it was a machine more dangerous than ever: a car running downhill, without combustion or brakes.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
Just now heaps of dead weeds and refuse were burning on many of the plots, the dry weather favouring their combustion.
Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
"Drilling troops and giving classes on the internal combustion engine to all the local savants," said Sam.
Roger Zelazny -- Lord of Light
As dusk fell over the square and city outside the tall windows, the only lights were a few streetlamps of gas or some more primitive combustible.
Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
The shot went off from his gun with a combustion of light and little sound.
Alexandra Bracken -- The Darkest Minds
Yet given all that Jefferson was doing, and the combustible atmosphere of the moment, Adams's rancorous comments were remarkably few and mild.
David McCullough -- John Adams
He gripped the mug with both hands, talked about the noise of the conflagration, the air-fed wallop of combustion, like a ramjet thrusting.
Don DeLillo -- White Noise
When I burn this combustible to produce sodium, the smoke escaping from the mountain's crater gives it the appearance of a still–active volcano."
Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
But not spontaneously combust.
Meg Cabot -- Queen of Babble
The steady combustion was such that if nature had had a fire-tender, the fire-tender might have been sitting with his feet up, marveling at the flame.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
The light combustible kindled at the flash.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Prairie
Ever since the violent partition that pulled India and Pakistan apart, Kashmir had been combustible.
Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin -- Three Cups of Tea
Know the principles of a internal combustion engine?
John Steinbeck -- East of Eden
But combine it with Miles's tendency to arrest the Timsons first and figure the rest out later, and it became a combustible mix.
Nicholas Sparks -- A Bend in the Road

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