Sentence examples for became combustible from inspiring English sources

Bingham's biographer, Paul C. Nagel, said the air in the Missouri House chamber became "combustible" as the painter accused those who sympathized with secession, as did many in the audience, of treason.

When a flat jobs market was added to this mix, it became combustible.In Venezuela Hugo Chávez's government has expanded higher education by forcing existing universities to accept a massive increase in student numbers, and by setting-up a giant new open-access state institution, the "Bolivarian University".

"Add to that the fact that there is no vision for a political solution and the massive neglect of the Arab population in Jerusalem," Zohar told me, "and it becomes combustible".

Questions are being raised about whether the crews had been properly trained and equipped to deal with the emergency at a warehouse that stored a volatile mix of chemicals, including compounds that become combustible on contact with water.

Stored resentment becomes combustible and one day he erupts like a volcano, suddenly spewing the brutal truth about what an inconsiderate, selfish, cruel and horrible woman he is married to.

Similarly, opaque materials may become transparent (bulk copper versus copper nanoparticles), stable materials may become combustible (bulk iron versus iron nanoparticles) and insoluble materials may become soluble (bulk silver versus silver nanoparticles).

Thickening stands of trees became a combustible danger.

"The Marched Into Sunlight" gives a step-by-step account of how the anti-Dow protest became so combustible and of how the school's chancellor ("lost, haunted, the well-intentioned man immobilized by events beyond his imagination") found himself presiding over this debacle.

Parsons theorized that this was because the ammonium nitrate became dangerously combustible following overnight storage, during which temperature and consistency changes had resulted in a chemical imbalance.

Where it is absent, Latin America may become more combustible in the next few years.

If they kept their windows closed, their home would become a combustible bomb from all the gases piling up inside.