How To Use incombustible In A Sentence
- As the oil spreads across the surface, it mixes with the water into an incombustible sludge with the consistency of mayonnaise. Oil Spill Estimates Raised Fivefold
- Following a big fire, there are always discussions about potential techno fixes, like more supertanker planes, better foams and incombustible construction.
- Everything — framework, hull, houses, cabins — were made of straw-paper turned hard as metal by compression, and — what was not to be despised in an apparatus flying at great heights — incombustible. Robur the Conqueror
- This is the incombustible wood put down by Paganel in his list of Australian products. In Search of the Castaways
- Rock dust is incombustible material and is used to coat coal mines to reduce the chances of explosions. Regulators Say West Virginia Mine Didn't Meet Safety Standards
- They pushed forward galleries formed of hurdles of green reeds, and oaken semicircles like enormous shields gliding on three wheels; the workers were sheltered in little huts covered with raw hides and stuffed with wrack; the catapults and ballistas were protected by rope curtains which had been steeped in vinegar to render them incombustible. Salammbo
- A plant or vegetable consumed to ashes to a contemplative and school-philosopher seems utterly destroyed, and the form to have taken his leave for ever; but to a sensible artist the forms are not perished, but withdrawn into their incombustible part, where they lie secure from the action of that devouring element. Religio Medici
- For mother was a special creature (as I suppose we all are), being the warmest of the warm, when fired at the proper corner; and yet, if taken at the wrong point, you would say she was incombustible. Lorna Doone
- A guardian, when you had signed your name again, unlocked three unpickable, incombustible, and gunpowder-proof locks in a massive steel door, and you were admitted, assuming always that the hour was between nine and six. Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes
- At the moment when she makes her entrance into this history which we are relating, she was an antique virtue, an incombustible prude, with one of the sharpest noses, and one of the most obtuse minds that it is possible to see. Les Miserables
