Get to know Incendiary better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like burning or crook.
Incendiary in a sentence
Incendiary meaning
- Capable of, or used for, or actually causing fire.
- Of a damaging fire, intentionally caused rather than accidental.
- Intentionally stirring up strife, riot, rebellion.
Synonyms of Incendiary
Using Incendiary
- The main meaning on this page is: Capable of, or used for, or actually causing fire. | Of a damaging fire, intentionally caused rather than accidental. | Intentionally stirring up strife, riot, rebellion.
- Useful related words include: burning, crook, felon, criminal.
- In the example corpus, incendiary often appears in combinations such as: an incendiary, the incendiary, of incendiary.
Context around Incendiary
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 9 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Incendiary
- In this selection, "incendiary" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, explosive, piercing, meanwhile, rounds, bombs and comments stand out and add context to how "incendiary" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include add an incendiary effect to and all the incendiary comments he. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "incendiary" sits close to words such as alluded, apostolic and babe, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with incendiary
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Hostetter’s public speeches were often incendiary. (7 words)
Blasphemy is a highly sensitive and incendiary issue in Pakistan. (10 words)
De León has repeatedly for his part in the incendiary conversation. (11 words)
His defection to the LIV series, and all the incendiary comments he made in the process, had torched his reputation as he backed away from the PGA Tour with all the grace of a man reversing a forklift truck into a pallet of Ming vases. (45 words)
Alabama 3 unleashed an incendiary take of Woke Up This Morning (the Sopranos theme tune) that got everybody dancing, and newcomer Polly Gibbons delivered a sultry rendition of Bessie Smith’s timeless Need A Little Sugar In My Bowl that belied her age. (43 words)
Burning bales of straw soaked in creosote were used to simulate the effects of incendiary bombs dropped by the first wave of Pathfinder night bombers; meanwhile, incendiary bombs dropped on the correct location were quickly smothered, wherever possible. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
The Warthog was designed to be a "Tank Buster," capable of conducting attack runs on ground targets and strafing them with either PGU-13/B High Explosive Incendiary rounds or PGU-14/B Armor Piercing Incendiary rounds.
The incendiary balloons, like incendiary kites, are affixed with an already-lit Molotov cocktail.
A variety of Armor-Piercing Incendiary (API), High Explosive Incendiary (HEI), and training rounds are available.
Burning bales of straw soaked in creosote were used to simulate the effects of incendiary bombs dropped by the first wave of Pathfinder night bombers; meanwhile, incendiary bombs dropped on the correct location were quickly smothered, wherever possible.
She was arrested as an incendiary, but there is no documentation that she was a pétroleuse (female incendiary).
Alabama 3 unleashed an incendiary take of Woke Up This Morning (the Sopranos theme tune) that got everybody dancing, and newcomer Polly Gibbons delivered a sultry rendition of Bessie Smith’s timeless Need A Little Sugar In My Bowl that belied her age.
Any fuel still in its tanks at the moment of impact would add an incendiary effect to its blast effect.
A widow named C.M. attempts to unravel her late wife’s past by writing her biography: As an incendiary, boundary-pushing artist, her wife, X, had fascinated and eluded public understanding.
Blasphemy is a highly sensitive and incendiary issue in Pakistan.
But Erdogan’s recent incendiary comments about Israel opened a rift between Ankara and its Western allies that Scholz hoped to ameliorate.
But he said Sohn’s Twitter presence was too incendiary to ignore.
De León has repeatedly for his part in the incendiary conversation.
Furthermore, integrating various items or materials with arrows gives birth to explosive or incendiary ammunition, depending on the fusion components.
Harry launched a series of incendiary accusations against members of his family in "Spare," in which he recalled a number of private confrontations between him and other senior royals and detailed his split from the family.
He made incendiary remarks about Demis Hassabis, the head of Google’s DeepMind A.I. initiative, and, later, about Microsoft’s competing effort.
He says the implanting of “incendiary” policies like home demolitions by the Israeli government leads to such an escalation.
He used incendiary rhetoric to stir the emotions of the audience.
His defection to the LIV series, and all the incendiary comments he made in the process, had torched his reputation as he backed away from the PGA Tour with all the grace of a man reversing a forklift truck into a pallet of Ming vases.
Hostetter’s public speeches were often incendiary.
However, Kendall handled Matsson's incendiary response rather well, and he soon deletes the tweet.
Common combinations with incendiary
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- an incendiary 20×
- the incendiary 16×
- of incendiary 15×
- incendiary bombs 15×
- incendiary comments 15×
- and incendiary 14×
- incendiary devices 12×
- incendiary rhetoric 8×
- incendiary device 8×
- incendiary and 7×