Combusted

At length the big red sun sank slowly behind the curtain of sky-blue rock, where lies the not yet "combusted" village of Tajurrah. ❋ Richard Francis Burton (1855)

Two NATO oil tankers combusted after the vehicles were intercepted by armed men and fired upon. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Within seconds it combusted, also sucking the blood from the rug up and down into the fiery swirl that the light column had become. ❋ L. A. Banks (2011)

My old Motley Crue t-shirt mysteriously, spontaneously, combusted. ❋ Corinne McDermott (2011)

Thankfully, the nitrate-based rolls of film -- which might have deteriorated or even spontaneously combusted over the more than half-a-century it sat unrecognized -- was well-preserved in the hot, dry climate of Mexico City, with sufficient air circulating through the boxes in which they were contained. ❋ ARTINFO (2010)

Taught at MIT and was a high-level theoretical contractor until just after the soul trap project combusted. ❋ F. J. Lennon (2011)

The social polemics debate, which would fire up the White House and major religious denominations under the George H. Bush Presidency, was foreshadowed on a campy, excessive, ‘80’s television mini-series when the AIDS scourge had not yet combusted. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For those whose brains have not instantly combusted at the concept, the rise of the picosecond prompts an obvious question: why on Earth which spins at a rate of 460 meters a second is it necessary to trade so fast? ❋ Michelle Price (2011)

Imagine if I had been a gay man; I might have spontaneously combusted. ❋ Una LaMarche (2010)

The US DOE is looking into it as well and researchers expect that the hydrate will have to go through a phase change and melt it into methane and water before it can be efficiently combusted. ❋ Unknown (2010)

These include impurities in the fuel (mercury, lead) and partially combusted material, like particulate matter (PM) or soot, as well as carbon dioxide. ❋ Bill Chameides (2011)