WordNet
n. a substance that can be burned to provide heat or power [syn: combustible]
Usage examples of "combustible material".
The thought amused me at first, but then I realized how welcome a store of combustible material such as this might have been to the Chitchatuk -- heat, light to drive the wraiths away.
The thought amused me at first, but then I realized how welcome a store of combustible material such as this might have been to the Chitchatuk-heat, light to drive the wraiths away.
Dodging between them, the smell of singeing leather already sharp in his nostrils, he found himself in the middle of the compound, a space relatively free of combustible material, and thus of fire.
Building density is high and combustible material per building is high.
It might abruptly flare up, of course, consuming everything in its path, although currently it seemed unable to find sufficiently combustible material or oxygen to do more than barely sustain itself.
Despite the liberal use of concrete, the hotel had sufficient combustible material to feed the swiftly spreading blaze.