Sample Sentences forinflammable (auto-selected)
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The product label warns that it is inflammable.inflammable = easily started on fire and burnedstandard prefix: This word is often confused because in is often used as a prefix for not, but in this case the prefix means within. Today, most people just say flammable which has the same meaning and won't be confused.
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When Cavindish discovered hydrogen, he called it "inflammable air."
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However, the curse of inflammability is upon me, and I must live under it, and take any snub from a woman.† (source)
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I especially remember that a great deal of excellent inflammability was exhibited in a thin volume of poems by Ellery Channing; although, to speak the truth, there were certain portions that hissed and spluttered in a very disagreeable fashion.† (source)
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But that evening, when my fountain pen still hadn't turned up, we all assumed it had been burned, especially because celluloid is highly inflammable. (source)inflammable = easily burned
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He sprinkled the pages with cider to make them more inflammable, touched a match to them, and a little jet of flame curled upward. (source)
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... most of Hiroshima's city-wide conflagration was caused by inflammable wreckage falling on cook-stoves and live wires. (source)inflammable = easily started on fire and burnedstandard prefix: This word is often confused because in is often used as a prefix for not, but in this case the prefix means within. Today, most people just say flammable which has the same meaning and won't be confused.
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Because he had observed with augmenting frequency in the preceding members of the same series the same concupiscence, inflammably transmitted, first with alarm, then with understanding, then with desire, finally with fatigue, with alternating symptoms of epicene comprehension and apprehension.† (source)
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... and we [have] forgotten that the absence of rain for three weeks [has] left everything in so dry and inflammable a condition that a spark might set a fire which would sweep from end to end of the city. (source)
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Out of the court, and a long way out of it, there is considerable excitement too, for men of science and philosophy come to look, and carriages set down doctors at the corner who arrive with the same intent, and there is more learned talk about inflammable gases and phosphuretted hydrogen than the court has ever imagined. (source)inflammable = easily burned
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Leo could make a lot of things, but an inflammable, self-cleaning outfit wasn't one of them.† (source)
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Yes, that's the best place for such inflammable nonsense.† (source)
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"And if you were not my son, O most inflammable Rabadash," replied his father, "your life would be short and your death slow when you had said it."† (source)
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Gauldin, though serene in appearance, had an inflammable temper, which the application of too much pressure could quickly ignite.† (source)
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He started to clear the area of leaves, twigs, and grass; everything inflammable he swept aside; so that the evil spirits of the bush fire should have nothing to feed on.† (source)
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Farid took two torches and the bottle of inflammable liquid from Dustfinger's backpack.† (source)
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