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flammable
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  • It span through the air, trailing flammable fluid.†   (source)
  • So many toxic and flammable things.†   (source)
  • Despite the fact that they'd been recently bound, doused in flammable substances, and staked like human tiki torches, they closed ranks and faced me with determination in their eyes.†   (source)
  • The room is rather smoky, but aircraft carriers are nothing if not fire conscious, and not too much in this place is flammable.†   (source)
  • It's flammable," she said, pronouncing it correctly.†   (source)
  • The car held a smell like some dangerous vapor in the depths of a body-and-fender shop, a mixture of exhausted metal, flammable rags and scorched rubber.†   (source)
  • It's very flammable."†   (source)
  • "In addition to being highly corrosive," Kilvin said, "in its gaseous state the reagent is flammable.†   (source)
  • Black smoke from the flammables used to ignite the trees poured upward through orange flames.†   (source)
  • One of the railings had been driven into the oil tank and flammable heating oil began spurting out.†   (source)
  • The sign near the pump informed people it was illegal to smoke, because gasoline was flammable.†   (source)
  • Roran accompanied Jeod to the quarterdeck, where they watched the crimson inferno devour everything flammable between Teirm and the ocean.†   (source)
  • Buildings up and down the block were burning and collapsing, punctuated every so often by the explosion of flammable liquids.†   (source)
  • Charles said, finding her gathering more flammable materials from the Green Dragon.†   (source)
  • Kept setting my bed on fire in my sleep, until my parents took away all my sheets and made me lie on a bare metal cot in a bare room with nothing flammable at all in it.†   (source)
  • They were flammable!†   (source)
  • It took ambition, and to Eve's mind, ambition was a flammable fuel.†   (source)
  • He then reached into the open duffel bag on the seat beside him, ripped out the small pretimed plastique explosives and, as he had done throughout the southern compounds to the border of "France," hurled them through the lowered windows on both sides of the truck into the foundations of the wooden buildings he thought most flammable.†   (source)
  • You guys try to find something else flammable.†   (source)
  • The resulting gas, conveniently, was even more flammable than the liquid.†   (source)
  • But food, by its very nature, contained flammable hydrocarbons.†   (source)
  • Fire on an airship filled with millions of cubic feet of flammable hydrogen gas.†   (source)
  • Now, straight ahead of you should be two large yellow tanks that are marked 'Flammable.'†   (source)
  • I just realized I do have something flammable: my own hair.†   (source)
  • "Isn't it terribly dangerous to be flying with all of this flammable hydrogen?"†   (source)
  • The ship had few flammables aboard, due to the fatal danger of fire.†   (source)
  • He'd dumped the ether from the night before onto the lawn when he'd gotten home—the stuff was highly flammable and you didn't leave it standing around, particularly in a poorly sealed vessel.†   (source)
  • She even got Mr. Otto to write DANGER-FLAMMABLE on the side of the box in adult handwriting so it would look all official.†   (source)
  • Mal'akh hurried now into the lab and retrieved the Pyrex jug of Bunsen-burner fuel—a viscous, highly flammable, yet noncombustible oil.†   (source)
  • The scene might have been funny except that the Germani were now back on their feet, five demigods and a geyser spirit were still tied to highly flammable posts, and Nero still had a box of matches.†   (source)
  • Also their carchineal shorts were flammable, if you could hit them dead on with a missile that was hot enough already.†   (source)
  • He got one look at Sarah Byrnes wheeling a hundredseventy-five-plus pounds of FLAMMABLE Eric Calhoune down the sidewalk, followed her out of yelling range from school, and made his move like the true thumb crusher I believed he would grow up to be.†   (source)
  • "Um, let's go with flammable.†   (source)
  • More volatile and flammable materials.'†   (source)
  • One of his powers as a son of Hephaestus was that he could summon flames at will; but he had to be careful not to do so by accident, especially on a ship filled with explosives and flammable supplies.†   (source)
  • Ra wasn't flammable!†   (source)
  • You keep burning through the clothes I give you, so I thought I would weave something less flammable.†   (source)
  • Chicago probably would have been resurrected in the image of its old — and dangerously flammable — self, if two events had not intervened.†   (source)
  • Many of the remaining buildings (even the ones proclaimed to be "fireproof") looked solid, but were actually jerrybuilt affairs; the stone or brick exteriors hid wooden frames and floors, all topped with highly flammable tar or shingle roofs.†   (source)
  • But looking through it, I see it's all metal or nonflammable plastic.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, the EVA suit is made entirely of nonflammable materials.†   (source)
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