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"Burning" in a Sentence (25 examples)
Bridges are burning and chances are few.
The fire was burning brightly.
The fire is burning furiously.
Don't you smell something burning in the next room?
I smell something burning.
Burning the candle at both ends reduces the candle to wax in a hurry - just like a playboy having a pretty girl on each arm.
He said that he could smell something burning and that the telephones weren't working.
"Can you smell something burning?" "Oh, I went and burnt the toast."
Please keep the fire burning.
The instant he opened the door, he smelt something burning.
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the burning sun
The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.
Hot summer streets and the pavements are burning, I sit around / Trying to smile, but the air is so heavy and dry
burning skin
her burning heart
burning zeal
a burning passion
like a young hound upon a burning scent
a burning question; a burning issue
A firefighter puts water on a burning tree as flames approach a containment line, while fighting the King fire near Fresh Pond, California.
The driver remained at his post, while telling fireman Jim Nightall to get down on the track and run back to uncouple the burning wagon from the rest.
It gives a fine delineation of the burnings of shame, disappointed ambition, and vengeance[…]
The propriety of the dissolution, too, was speedily seen in the improved state of the public peace: for twelve years we hear little of Orange riots, and nothing of such burnings and wreckings as those of Maghera, Maghery, and Annahagh.
The suspect is the 21-year-old son of a St. Landry Parish sheriff’s deputy and may have been influenced by “black metal” music and its “associated history with church burnings,” the state fire marshal’s office said.
The burnings continued all day.
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