Napalm is an English word with synonyms like gasoline or gas. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Napalm meaning
- A highly flammable, viscous substance, designed to stick to the body while burning, used in warfare as an incendiary especially in wooded areas.
- Anything very incendiary; dynamite.
Using Napalm
- The main meaning on this page is: A highly flammable, viscous substance, designed to stick to the body while burning, used in warfare as an incendiary especially in wooded areas. | Anything very incendiary; dynamite.
- Useful related words include: gasoline, gasolene, gas, petrol.
- In the example corpus, napalm often appears in combinations such as: of napalm, napalm death, with napalm.
Context around Napalm
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 11 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Napalm
- In this selection, "napalm" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, dropping, metallers, fact, death, invented and infusion stand out and add context to how "napalm" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include about dropping napalm bombs which and an incoming napalm attack. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "napalm" sits close to words such as abdelaziz, absolutist and accrual, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with napalm
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
But in the novel the island is razed with napalm. (10 words)
Wake up and smell the Napalm dropped by the ANC. (10 words)
Napalm should be used in those locations to flush them out. (11 words)
Yes, they’re the most vulnerable, but there are too damned many middle-aged people dying from this malicious virus, not to mention survivors escaping with permanent lung damage that looks like the work of a napalm bombing. (38 words)
The VVA co-founder assured Trump, as did several before him, that it was in fact napalm, and said that he didn’t like the Coppola film and believed it to be a disservice to Vietnam War veterans. (38 words)
For instance, if its training set includes the recipe for napalm, you don’t want it to repeat it — but in order to know not to repeat it, it needs to know what it’s not repeating. (37 words)
In 'Apocalypse Now', when did Colonel Kilgore love the smell of napalm? (12 words)
Example sentences (20)
But in the novel the island is razed with napalm.
For instance, if its training set includes the recipe for napalm, you don’t want it to repeat it — but in order to know not to repeat it, it needs to know what it’s not repeating.
A month later our napalm, invented by Harvard chemists, incinerated Tokyo in a single night.
Just as lethal as its flames, the napalm infusion sucked out oxygen in enclosed spaces that had been sealed shut and replaced it with toxic levels of carbon monoxide that poisoned their occupants to death.
They exploded onto the stage with a track about dropping napalm bombs, which again gives you some idea of the kind of night it was.
Wake up and smell the Napalm dropped by the ANC.
Who argued that, if we had just stuck with it longer, devoted more troops, more money, more napalm, maybe even gone nuclear, we could have won.
Yes, they’re the most vulnerable, but there are too damned many middle-aged people dying from this malicious virus, not to mention survivors escaping with permanent lung damage that looks like the work of a napalm bombing.
Opland has an eccentric fondness for spreading misinformation: one poster claims that thrash metallers Napalm Death are appearing, while on that debut show’s anniversary, he put the old posters back up around town.
Every weapon has been used against these civilians from the deadly nerve agent sarin, to napalm, phosphorus, cluster munitions, in discriminate barrel bombs and highly sophisticated guided missiles and rockets.
In 'Apocalypse Now', when did Colonel Kilgore love the smell of napalm?
Napalm should be used in those locations to flush them out.
The VVA co-founder assured Trump, as did several before him, that it was in fact napalm, and said that he didn’t like the Coppola film and believed it to be a disservice to Vietnam War veterans.
We rose from the ashes of napalm which they poured on us.
After a few months with no success by the French, he added other aircraft to drop napalm for clearing purposes.
Also, see war films of American pilots dropping napalm on Japanese strong points on Okinawa.
A team of chemists led by Louis Fieser at Harvard University was the first to develop synthetic napalm, during 1942.
Egyptian aircraft attempted to bomb the bridge every day, and helicopters launched suicide missions, making attempts to drop barrels of napalm on the bridge and bridgehead.
Industrial and electronic music seeAlso Justin Pearson of The Locust, originators of electrogrind Among other influences, Napalm Death took impetus from the industrial music scene.
In one Vietnam War scene, Gump carries Bubba away from an incoming napalm attack.
Common combinations with napalm
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of napalm 5×
- napalm death 4×
- with napalm 3×
- dropping napalm 3×
- the napalm 2×
- napalm bombs 2×
- napalm on 2×