Sample Sentences for
incendiary
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incendiary as in:  an incendiary bomb

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The arsonist used an incendiary device made of gasoline and a timer to set fire to the abandoned warehouse.
incendiary = designed to start fires
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    Austin picked some incendiary fluff off his shoulder.  (source)
    incendiary = flammable
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    The moment the first dropcop had entered my apartment, an incendiary device had detonated inside my computer.  (source)
    incendiary = designed to start a fire
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    The variety of arrows—razor sharp, incendiary, explosive—turn the bow into a multipurpose weapon.  (source)
    incendiary = designed to start fires
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    It is an incendiary device: who knows what we'd make of it, if we ever got our hands on it?  (source)
    incendiary = designed to start fires
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    They bring in the Cobras and F-4s, they use Willie Peter and HE and incendiaries.  (source)
    incendiaries = things designed to start fires
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    But he told Mr. Tulliver several stories about "Swing" and incendiarism, and asked his advice about feeding pigs in so thoroughly secular and judicious a manner, with so much polished glibness of tongue, that the miller thought, here was the very thing he wanted for Tom.†  (source)
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    Millions of men perpetrated against one another such innumerable crimes, frauds, treacheries, thefts, forgeries, issues of false money, burglaries, incendiarisms, and murders as in whole centuries are not recorded in the annals of all the law courts of the world, but which those who committed them did not at the time regard as being crimes.†  (source)
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    In Kearney, Nebraska, citizens were instructed on disabling incendiary bombs with garden hoses.  (source)
    incendiary = designed to start fires
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    Those victims who were able to worry at all about what had happened thought of it and discussed it in more primitive, childish terms — gasoline sprinkled from an aeroplane, maybe, or some combustible gas, or a big cluster of incendiaries, or the work of parachutists; but, even if they had known the truth, most of them were too busy or too weary or too badly hurt to care that they were the objects of the first great experiment in the use of atomic power, which (as the voices on the short wave shouted) no country except the United States, with its industrial know how, its willingness to throw two billion gold dollars into an important wartime gamble, could possibly have developed.†  (source)
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    —Essay on psychology in POLITICS (New York) (4) All the "best people" from the gentlemen's clubs, and all the frantic fascist captains, united in common hatred of Socialism and bestial horror of the rising tide of the mass revolutionary movement, have turned to acts of provocation, to foul incendiarism, to medieval legends of poisoned wells, to legalize their own destruction of proletarian organizations, and rouse the agitated petty-bourgeoisie to chauvinistic fervor on behalf of the fight against the revolutionary way out of the crisis.†  (source)
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    On the night of March 9th, 1945, an air attack on Tokyo by American heavy bombers, using incendiary and high explosive bombs, caused the death of 83,793 people.  (source)
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    "I will never stand by and see my native soil polluted by a horde of Abolition incendiaries" or for that matter by the "lowest and most contemptible race upon the face of God's earth,"†  (source)
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    Even if there was any arson (which is very doubtful, for no one had any reason to burn the houses—in any case a troublesome and dangerous thing to do), arson cannot be regarded as the cause, for the same thing would have happened without any incendiarism.†  (source)
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incendiary as in:  an incendiary editorial

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    Reading this correspondence (collected in W. L. Rusho's meticulously researched biography, Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for Beauty), one is struck by Ruess's craving for connection with the natural world and by his almost incendiary passion for the country through which he walked.  (source)
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    They were headed for Little Rock to add to the incendiary feelings in our town.  (source)
    incendiary = angry passionate
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    Admitting to his ignorance of the real state of things in America—and inferring that this was no uncommon handicap in Parliament—he boldly proposed the repeal of every act concerning America since the incendiary Stamp Act of 1765.  (source)
    incendiary = provoking anger
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They were to be sedate in bearing, unapproachable, regal even, but possessed of arcane and potentially lethal recipes, and capable of inspiring the most incendiary passions in men.  (source)
incendiary = fiery
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