Sample sentences for INCENDIARY

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Definition

of materials: designed to start fires

of ideas or words: arousing anger, violence, or rebellion

In the skies over Japan that night, America was staging by far the biggest air raid, by tonnage, of World War II: 836 B-29s, bearing more than 6,100 tons of bombs, incendiaries, and mines.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

incendiaries = bombs designed to start fires

They bring in the Cobras and F-4s, they use Willie Peter and HE and incendiaries.
Tim O'Brien -- The Things They Carried

incendiaries = things designed to start fires

9 of them, carrying incendiary bombs.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

incendiary = designed to start fires

On the drizzly night of November 29-30, the prisoners were awakened by two incendiary raids on Tokyo's industrial areas.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

incendiary = bombs designed to start fires

When are you going to turn loose those incendiaries?
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

incendiaries = bombs designed to start fires

In Kearney, Nebraska, citizens were instructed on disabling incendiary bombs with garden hoses.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

incendiary = designed to start fires

It was what is called an "incendiary" appeal—it was written by a man into whose soul the iron had entered.
Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle
Yes, he wasn't very good, though-still used incendiary grenades .... but strong.
Roger Zelazny -- Lord of Light
Austin picked some incendiary fluff off his shoulder.
Rick Riordan -- The Hidden Oracle
The projectile was a mixture of incendiaries and Imperial gold.
Rick Riordan -- The Blood of Olympus
Which of the people watching the incendiary bomb extinguished on the hill last night would understand what I mean if they read this ?
Virginia Woolf -- A Sketch of the Past
The exercise will be programmed as if an atom bomb had exploded and incendiary and high-powered bombs had rained down on the entire amusement area.
Judy Blume -- In the Unlikely Event
The sun had now got far to the west of south and stood directly in her face, like some merciless incendiary, brand in hand, waiting to consume her.
Thomas Hardy -- The Return of the Native
Kilvin would probably call it an atmospherically activated incendiary action.
Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
So as he walks to a party in his honor, there is a third incendiary situation looming over his administration.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Kennedy
Indeed, it can easily be imagined that these changes, combined with the high wind, also had an incendiary effect on certain minds.
Albert Camus -- The Plague
A thermite grenade is an incendiary device that burns at four thousand degrees Fahrenheit and can go through a quarter-inch of steel in a few seconds.
Chris Kyle -- American Sniper
The incendiary device to CO2.
Rick Yancey -- The Infinite Sea
Let him take thought, Odysseus, with you and others how the ships may be defended against incendiary attack.
Homer -- The Iliad
They were bandits, counterfeiters, poisoners, incendiaries, murderers, parricides.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables

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