Sentence examples for to combust from inspiring English sources

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to combust

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To burn; to catch fire.

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We all know that fat is very combustible, and a 400 pounder has more to combust.

Oxy-combustion uses pure stream of O2, instead of air, to combust coal and thus produces CO2-rich gas stream.

You are about to combust.

Meryl Streep's shirtwear has been the latest to combust.

There the flames burned hot enough to combust rock.

A dangerous nexus, a toxic mix waiting to combust.

South-central Europe is fighting a heat wave fierce enough to cause forests to combust.

The Terry Collins of the past would have had plenty of reasons to combust lately.

The impact causes the warhead to combust before it hits the armour.

But "if you're asking me if the cat is likely to combust, the answer is no".

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I went from feeling as if I were about to spontaneously combust to suspecting that I'd simply break down into trace elements: boron, calcium, zinc.

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