BURN in a Sentence

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For BURN, below is one of 309 sentences:
Now they were caring about something again, numbed nerves were coming back to life and the old spirit was beginning to burn.

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 Meanings and Examples of BURN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
burn
 n.  an injury caused by exposure to heat or flame
 v.  flame or glow while consuming something like coal or wood
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  In an hour or two the moon would push over the ridge behind the farm, burn a gold-edged rent in the clouds, and then be swallowed by them.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  A wife who didn't burn herself would be a social outcast.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  As she passed the stove, she shoved the handkerchief into the flames and with impotent anger watched it burn.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
4  They could burn the roof over us.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
5  And when he reported that they were--ill--they did not burn the house.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
6  She drank slowly but this time the liquid did not burn, only a dull warmth followed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
7  And I managed to get into the bushes and hide and I lay there and saw our house burn and I saw the Indians scalp my brothers and sisters.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
8  He told them they'd have to burn you over his head.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
9  Then, they'll burn you over my head for I can't leave you either.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
10  Now the Yankees won't burn it and our troops won't need it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
11  "I'll tear this house down, stone by stone, and burn it and sow every acre with salt before I see either of you put foot over this threshold," she shouted.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
12  Of course, we had a dreadful time right after Sherman went through but, after all, he didn't burn the house and the darkies saved most of the livestock by driving it into the swamp.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
13  My, my, that was a mighty sad sight, sitting on top of that train and seeing the Yankees burn those supplies we had to leave at the depot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
14  Now they were caring about something again, numbed nerves were coming back to life and the old spirit was beginning to burn.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
15  Let others burn with fury over the Yankee rule and losing the ballot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
Example Sentence: (99 in 7 pages)
16  Meteors produce streaks of light as they burn up in the Earth's atmosphere.
17  Idle such as vinegar, can soften the spirit of the calcareous; diligent like alcohol, can burn the flame of wisdom.
18  Muscle cells need lots of fuel and therefore burn lots of calories.
19  It seems strange to me that all round me do not burn to enlist, but join in the same enterprise.
20  "Didn't Gracie Miller fall in the kitchen fire and burn herself terrible the very next Saturday?" "Yes, but she ain't DEAD."
21  Building up muscle mass is going to cause you to burn more calories and increase your metabolic rate.
22  You can also take pine sap from a pine tree to burn for a while.
23  The young author burned energy as if he never heard of resting.
24  He who plays with fire gets burned.
25  The fire burned for eight hours before the fire crews could subdue it.
26  He wasn't that badly burned, but yeah, we checked.
27  When Senator Gary Hart crashed and burned, most of his people caught on somewhere else in a few weeks.
28  The oft-quoted example of Nero playing the violin as Rome burned shows the Emperor's detachment from reality.
29  The fire has burned down to a spark.
30  The forest fire burned away for a week.