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How to use the word ignition in a Sentence?

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Undergrounding reduces ignition risk by 99% so we are starting in the areas of the highest fire risk, high fire threat district areas, and also prioritizing areas where we can reduce the number of public safety power shutoffs.

Deanna Contreras

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Xcel Energy has been a very responsive and invaluable partner. At this point, they have inspected all of their lines within the ignition area and found no downed power lines, they did find some compromised communication lines that may have been misidentified as power lines. Typically, communications lines( telephone, cable, internet, etc.) would not be the cause of a fire.

Boulder OEM

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Any ignition has a high chance of setting off big fires that run out of control.

Renata Libonati

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

If we don't have an ignition, then we don't have a fire.

Craig Clements

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The combination of dry fuels and tropical storm force winds could lead to downed trees and power lines, thus any ignition of new fires would flourish and rapidly expand under these conditions.

Pedram Javaheri

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The kids were so cute yesterday. One said, It looks like your Jeep! we put keys with their names on the desks,so they were all very excited and wanted to know if [the Jeeps]really work and where to put [the keys]in the ignition.

Patricia Dovi

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

After our debriefing, I walked out to my car, stuck the keys into the ignition and I couldnt start the car, thats when it hit me when I realized what we had done. I just sat there for fiveminutes and kept saying, We landed on the Moon.

Homer Ahr

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The failure of the titanium component in a high-pressure NTO environment was sufficient to cause ignition of the check valve and led to an explosion.

Elon Musk

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

They're credential employees. They're there to work on the airplanes. ... This is aviation in America. The doors of the airplanes are not keyed like a car. There is not an ignition key like a car. The setup in aviation in America is we secure the airfield.

Brad Tilden

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I believe she was abducted, she did not hit herself, stuff herself in the truck and drive all the way to Spokane County and shoot herself. She said her mother was hysterical when she spoke to her on the phone. Deputies found the keys in the ignition and her purse in the front seat. They also found blood on the ground near a $ 20 bill, the paper reported.

Rochelle Maze

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

GM consumers got a major victory in their ignition switch lawsuits that were previously barred by the U.S. bankruptcy court.

Clarence Ditlow

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

I'm enjoying the peace and quiet of my vineyard, and when I miss the sound and the fury, I take refuge in my garage and turn the key in the ignition of my Miura.

Ferruccio Lamborghini

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The guy jams the keys in the ignition, turns the car on, jams it (into) drive and mashes the accelerator. He wasn't slowly pulling away. (Tensing) feared for his life. He thought he was going to be sucked under the car that was pulling away from him. He thought he was going to get sucked under and killed.

Stew Mathews

Found on CNN
8 years ago

What people don't realize is while they're setting off fireworks and sparklers in hot, dry heat or wind, that fires can move very quickly, putting their neighborhood directly in threat, look for open, wide spaces to ignite fireworks, and stay away from fire fuels such as grass, which in this type of heat, cure out really fast. And with the high winds, all it takes is an ignition, even in an urban environment. A bottle rocket on a shake roof would ignite a fire very rapidly.

Mike Apicello

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Unlike the alcohol ignition interlocks which require you to blow into a devise and are used for convicted drunk drivers, DADSS is a driver assist system that would be seamless, take less than half a second, and use infrared light to measure a driver’s blood alcohol content in the breath or through the fingertips, which is far more reliable.

Bud Zaouk

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Denis Watley

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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