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"Burn" in a Sentence (63 examples)
My cheeks burn.
Burn with desire.
I got blisters from the burn.
Fires are less frightening today than they once were, because more and more houses are built of concrete, and concrete houses do not burn as easily as the old wooden ones.
Plastic does not burn easily.
Looks like I might have to burn the midnight oil tonight.
With respect to these letters, I think the best thing is to burn them.
This wood won't burn.
Burn this rubbish on the fire.
You must see to it that the cakes do not burn.
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She had second-degree burns from falling in the bonfire.
He burnt his hand in the fire.
chili burn from eating hot peppers
They’re doing a controlled burn of the fields.
One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn.
One and, two and, keep moving; feel the burn!
TOM: I’m serious bruv. Put my burn and lighter and all that in my jeans please and give them here, then press the cell bell.
“Any of you want to borrow some burn,” asked a scarred inmate known as Bull.
It was like no one was looking out for me, and the older kids used to take the piss ...they were always threatening me and taking my burn [tobacco][…]
As the prison week ended and the less careful inmates began to run out of burn they went through a peculiar begging ritual that I, never one to husband resources either, was quick to learn.
Allow additional burns enables you to create a multisession CD, which can be used again to write more data.
They have a good burn.
On 4 March 1999, the MCO performed its second course correction manoeuvre with a burn involving its four thrusters […]
He burned his manuscript in the fireplace.
They haue ſlayne my baylye⸝ and diſtroyed the houſes of my men⸝ banyſſhed and chaſed away myne offycers, and brent yͤ houſe in the worlde that I loued beſt.
On July 1, 1402, when the Prince of Yen reached P’u-k’ou (in Kiangsu), Sheng Yung and his imperial troops attacked him and attempted to burn his boats.⁹⁶
Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.
I've never been on top of the latest trends. When everyone was burning CDs I was still burning books.
He watched the house burn.
Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.
He burned the toast. The blacksmith burned the steel.
The grill was too hot and the steak burned.
to burn a hole; to burn letters into a block
I posted myself near a place where they had been burning charcoal, and very soon the hare came running past, close to where I was standing.
She burned the child with an iron, and was jailed for ten years.
She forgot to put on sunscreen and burned.
to burn the mouth with pepper
This tyrant fever burns me up.
This dry sorrow burns up all my tears.
You are jealous and covet [what others have] and your desires go unfulfilled; [so] you become murderers. [To hate is to murder as far as your hearts are concerned.] You burn with envy and anger and are not able to obtain [the gratification, the contentment, and the happiness that you seek], so you fight and war. You do not have, because you do not ask.
The child’s forehead was burning with fever. Her cheeks burned with shame.
In ſlumbers oft for fere I quake / For hete & cold I burne & ſhake / For lake of ſlepe my hede dothe ake / What menys thys
to burn iron in oxygen
A human being burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration.
Copper burns in chlorine.
We’ll burn this program onto an EEPROM one hour before the demo begins.
At first they didn’t do anything by design, beyond writing songs and gigging around Sheffield, distributing homemade demo CDs at shows. Their canny friends burned copies to leave on buses, but more importantly, uploaded them to filesharing sites and set up a MySpace page.
I've never been on top of the latest trends. When everyone was burning CDs I was still burning books.
My old DVD player could play DivX files but didn't recognize the subtitle file, so I had to burn them in.
The informant burned him.
I just burned you again.
We have an hour to burn.
The company has burned more than a million dollars a month this year.
Oh, why don’t you save all the money you earn? / If I didn’t eat, I’d have money to burn.
You’re cold… warm… hot… you’re burning!
Not being accustomed to make fine distinctions, or to appreciate magnanimity, they read his letters and speeches as if they read them not. They were not aware when they approached a heroic statement,—they did not know when they burned.
He had already burned his cover with Mrs. Phillips, and it was not a mistake he intended to make again.
Eventually they'd report back to Ryker, and he still didn't know if Ryker had personally burned his cover and sent assassins after him, or if the SSU had a mole. Until he knew for certain, he had to play this safe.
"How does Leipzig burn him precisely?" Enderby insisted. "What's the pressure? Dirty pix—well, okay. Karla's a puritan, so's Kirov. But I mean, Christ, this isn't the fifties, is it? […]
This darksome burn, horseback brown, / His rollrock highroad roaring down, / In coop and in comb the fleece of his foam / Flutes and low to the lake falls home.
He may pitch on some tuft of lilacs over a burn, and smoke innumerable pipes to the tune of the water on the stones.
At this place, the clay in the 52 ft. embankment had been under water pressure for some weeks before the water level could be lowered, and the burn diverted through a temporary culvert.
When it was too heavy rain the burn ran very high and wide and ye could never jump it.
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