Burner

//ˈbɜːnə//

"Burner" in a Sentence (18 examples)

Put the teapot on the burner, otherwise the tea will be cold.

I think we're going to need to put this project on the back burner for a little while.

Tom put his career on the back burner and became a house husband, to enable Mary to pursue her career.

Tom had put the project on the back burner. But, after receiving several emails about it this week, it suddenly went on the front burner.

A large curved retort was boiling furiously in the bluish flame of a Bunsen burner, and the distilled drops were condensing into a two-litre measure.

For years, agriculture was placed on the back burner in Algeria.

Back in my day, we had to use a CD burner to burn data to a CD.

He took the hot dog out of its package and put a small frying pan onto the stove's gas burner.

I forgot to post this under my burner account.

Potassium, heated with a Bunsen burner, turns the flame purple.

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She lit a burner on the stove / And offered me a pipe / "I thought you'd never say hello", she said / "You look like the silent type"

No one on the corner has swagger like us / Hit me on my burner prepaid wireless

Internet sleuths later discovered that the username, @SO_blessed1, appeared to be a burner belonging to the Twitter user Incarcerated Bob, who had long been spreading false information.

[…] we were doing productions, burners like 100 feet long and as tall as we could get, standing on people's shoulders, […]

There is a hierarchy of sorts: a throw-up can go over a tag, a piece over a throw-up, and a burner over a piece.

In Mississippi, Tom turned an encampment of do-gooder burners into an organization he dubbed Burners Without Borders.

White Ocean, co-founded by entrepreneurs Timur Sardarov, the son of a Russian oil magnate, and Oliver Ripley, and involving the trance DJ Paul Oakenfold, is viewed as one such camp, although it provides one of Burning Man’s biggest stages and claims to “feed hundreds of non-White Ocean burners a day”.

Tens of thousands of “burners” at the Burning Man festival have been told to stay in the camps, conserve food and water and are being blocked from leaving Nevada’s Black Rock desert after a slow-moving rainstorm turned the event into a mud bath.

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