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Definition of "combustibly" []

  • In a combustible manner (adverb)

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Use "combustibly" in a sentence
  • "As Christopher Hitchens reminded us in his essay in the June 2002 Atlantic, "A Man of Permanent Contradictions," few British writers of comparable stature were both as widely beloved and as intensely reviled in their own lifetimes, or have continued to elicit such combustibly mixed feelings among later generations of readers."
  • "They would also use mercury for bullets in their rifles, just as inhabitants of the intra-Vulcan planets at the other extreme might, if their bodies consisted of asbestos, or were in any other way non-combustibly constituted, bathe in tin, lead, or even zinc, which ordinarily exist in the liquid state, as water and mercury do on the earth."
  • "Except that no Broadway musical, not even the most imbecilic Victor Herbert operetta, was ever this blissfully brain damaged, combustibly campy, or delightfully dumb."
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