Sample Sentences for
flammable
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    They seemed flammable, dry and nearly powdery.  (source)
    flammable = easy to set on fire
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    Now, straight ahead of you should be two large yellow tanks that are marked "Flammable."  (source)
    Flammable = easily set on fire
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    Isn't it terribly dangerous to be flying with all of this flammable hydrogen?  (source)
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    I just realized I do have something flammable: my own hair.  (source)
    flammable = easily set on fire
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    Black smoke from the flammables used to ignite the trees poured upward through orange flames.†  (source)
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    Unfortunately, the EVA suit is made entirely of nonflammable materials.  (source)
    nonflammable = not easily set on fire
    standard prefix: The prefix "non-" in nonflammable means not and reverses the meaning of flammable. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
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    Everybody was sitting on sleeping bags, Alaska smoking with flagrant disregard for the overwhelming flammability of the structure, when the Colonel pulled out a single piece of computer paper and read from it.†  (source)
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    At first we mixed things together, hoping they would explode, but nothing happened, so I decided we should conduct an experiment to see if any of the stuff was flammable.  (source)
    flammable = easily set on fire
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    They didn't store flammables in there.†  (source)
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    But looking through it, I see it's all metal or nonflammable plastic.  (source)
    nonflammable = not easily set on fire
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    She filled each bottle with flammable liquid, lit it, then immediately passed it to me for throwing.†  (source)
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    The ship had few flammables aboard, due to the fatal danger of fire.  (source)
    flammables = things easily set on fire
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    If you decide to use fire in battle, make sure that anything you need yourself isn't flammable.†  (source)
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