BURNER in a Sentence

Learn BURNER from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for BURNER, such as:

1. They had to remove the ashes from the burner first.
2. It helps to put an important issue back on the front burner.
3. The four of them drank rather bad coffee which Pollock made on a kerosene burner.

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 Meanings and Examples of BURNER
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burner
 n.  an apparatus for burning fuel (or refuse)
 n.  the heating elements of a stove or range on which pots and pans are placed for cooking
Classic Sentence:
1  The four of them drank rather bad coffee which Pollock made on a kerosene burner.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
2  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.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
Example Sentence:
1  It helps to put an important issue back on the front burner.
2  They had to remove the ashes from the burner first.
3  Even after you remove the pudding from the burner, it will continue to coagulate as it stands; therefore, do not overcook the pudding, lest it become too thick.
4  The company has built 500 burners on Himalayan ridges in the path of the monsoon, and is testing a system to loft particles of silver iodide from the machines into the atmosphere.