Accelerant
"Accelerant" in a Sentence (7 examples)
The police were able to determine that an accelerant was used in the fire.
Tom used an accelerant to start the fire.
A substance that accelerates chemical reactions is an accelerant.
Accelerant was poured across the beds where the two daughters of a family in Cheshire, Conn., had been tied before a fire during a home invasion in 2007, a fire investigator told jurors on Friday.
Hello Neighbor’s experience reflects the rise of video sites like YouTube as an accelerant for the video game business.
[Mike] Skinner can be credited with pouring lots of accelerant on pop in his time. In his absence, Caribbean-derived UK bass music became the de facto sound of British youth.
But the brutal killing did not capture widespread attention until the security footage was released on Friday, at which point it became an accelerant for conservative arguments about crime, race and the perceived failings of big-city justice systems and mainstream news outlets in the Trump era.
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