How to Use napalm in a Sentence

napalm

noun
  • One was of a nine-year-old girl running naked, and in terror, away from a napalm strike.
    — James Fallows, The Atlantic, 17 Feb. 2018
  • Her wounds from the napalm, which left her in the hospital for more than a year, still cause her pain.
    — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Feb. 2021
  • He's threatened to go to war and napalm the City of Chicago.
    — Christa Swanson, CBS News, 22 Nov. 2025
  • One man was charged for posting a crude napalm recipe that is widely available online.
    — NBC News, 18 June 2020
  • But curtain calls are joyful and cheerful, and this song was like napalm sprayed over the audience.
    — Ellise Pierce, star-telegram, 5 Sep. 2017
  • The jet, carrying napalm, was hit by antiaircraft fire and blew up.
    — — Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2017
  • Watching Platoon put me in the mood to blast some napalm into the projection booth.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 6 Mar. 2021
  • The man whose cologne of choice is napalm spent some time in our humble Midwestern community?
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Protesters have increasingly switched to using napalm rather than just petrol bombs.
    — James Griffiths, CNN, 18 Nov. 2019
  • In late 1944, thousands of bombs packed with napalm reached the Marianas.
    — Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2021
  • How much money did Dow Chemical make being at war making napalm?
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2021
  • What remained looked like the hillsides of Vietnam after a napalm strike, ghostly gray moonscapes devoid of life.
    — TIME.com, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Enough chemists would have refused to make napalm that the cost of producing the explosive would have become prohibitively high.
    — Zachary D. Carter, The New Republic, 17 June 2021
  • Later, his father found black, ashy residue on his car, because Sabottka had tried to make napalm bombs out of a plastic bag to drip onto his toy soldiers.
    — Steve Knopper, Billboard, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Should the historic photograph of a naked Vietnamese child fleeing a napalm bombing be removed as child pornography?
    — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2020
  • Instead of folksy sepia and black-and-white, there are vivid jade-green jungles and horrific blooms of napalm that explode into orange and then gradually turn smoky black.
    — David Kamp, HWD, 18 July 2017
  • Already, the Berrigans each had served years-long prison sentences for stealing hundreds of draft cards and destroying them with homemade napalm.
    — Erin Cox, Washington Post, 24 May 2022
  • Or the photo of Kim Phuc, the naked Vietnamese girl fleeing the napalm that has just incinerated her home.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2021
  • The napalm to my Teresa, the Jovani to my Luann, the quiet woman to my Shannon.
    — Lydia Price, PEOPLE.com, 1 July 2019
  • Consider the example of the iconic news photograph of a young naked girl running from a napalm bomb during the Vietnam War.
    — Julia Angwin, Propublica, and Hannes Grassegger, Ars Technica, 28 June 2017
  • Van Pelt Library to watch a dog being burned in a protest over the use of napalm (which was deployed widely during the Vietnam War).
    — Joey Lautrup, Time, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Running on Empty The movie follows a pair of '60s radicals who go on the run after destroying a napalm factory.
    — Patrick Cooley, cleveland.com, 23 Aug. 2017
  • In 2016, the social network removed an iconic photo from the Vietnam War, in which a young naked girl is running from a napalm attack.
    — Alyssa Newcomb /, NBC News, 5 July 2018
  • The napalm was scheduled to arrive in Indiana over the weekend, or Monday at the latest, said the Burlington Northern spokesman.
    — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2023
  • The Rockies got blasted by the Giants in the first game of a doubleheader on Monday—like, dipped in napalm and thrown into a gasoline fire levels of destroyed.
    — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 16 July 2019
  • These phrases are emotional napalm disguised as communication.
    — Brendan Keegan, Rolling Stone, 20 Aug. 2025
  • In one instance, Facebook removed an iconic photo of a naked girl running on a road after suffering burns from a napalm attack during the Vietnam War.
    — Queenie Wong, The Mercury News, 3 May 2017
  • Inside the truck or on him, Coffman had a shotgun, a rifle, three pistols and 11 Mason jar bombs inside a cooler that, if detonated, could have acted like napalm.
    — Katelyn Polantz, CNN, 25 May 2021
  • Some iconic images from the Vietnam War - the running, nude Vietnamese girl who was caught in a napalm attack, for example - gained their full historic import only after the war.
    — Marc Fisher and Naomi Nix, Anchorage Daily News, 14 May 2023
  • In 1969 opponents of the Vietnam war, who had sought and failed to call a shareholder vote to force Dow Chemical to stop making napalm, appealed.
    — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018

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