BURNING in a Sentence

Learn BURNING 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.
309 example sentences for BURNING, such as:
1. I saw a light burning in her window.
2. The pilot jumped from the burning plane.
3. Smoke billowed from the burning building.
4. A welcoming fire was burning in the fireplace.
5. They had said nothing about burning the house.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of BURNING
burning
 a.  of immediate import
 n.  a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She began to cry, and he felt as if every one of her tears were pouring over him like burning lead.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  "I'm obliged to you, but I'll try if I can get it down at Mrs. Homan's," Ethan answered, burning to be gone.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
3  Once he found her mouth again, and they seemed to be by the pond together in the burning August sun.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
4  There was disappointment burning in her that she could not quite analyze, the disappointment of a child seeing illusions crumble.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  She thought of Ellen dying and of the Yankees coming into Atlanta, burning everything, killing everybody.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
6  His face was the face of a man drunk with fatigue and impotent rage and burning pity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
7  She heard her own breath pass from loud evenness to spasmodic sobbing but her eyes were dry and burning as though there would never be tears in them again.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
8  She swayed toward him as he came up the steps, her face white, her green eyes burning.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
9  She gripped the reins tighter with hands that were blistered and slapped them fiercely on the horse's back, her aching arms burning at the movement.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
10  They said for me to leave, that they would be burning the place.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
11  I said that they would be burning the house over the heads of three dying women.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
12  The room where Suellen and Carreen lay mumbling and tossing on the same bed stank vilely with the smell of the twisted rag burning in a saucer of bacon fat, which provided the only light.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
13  Somewhere there was a war and cannon booming and burning towns and men who rotted in hospitals amid sickening-sweet stinks.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
14  In a swath eighty miles wide the Yankees were looting and burning.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
15  They had said nothing about burning the house.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
Example Sentence: (99 in 7 pages)
1  The air was permeated with the odour of burning rubber.
2  A traditional Indian custom used to involve widows burning themselves alive on their husbands' funeral pyres.
3  The mat was smoldering where the burning log had fallen.
4  I saw a light burning in her window.
5  Europe remains the burning issue within the party.
6  He rushed into the burning building and led the people out to safety.
7  Smoke billowed from the burning building.
8  Fires were burning out of control in the center of the city.
9  Snow clothes, with snow and tender heart, more holy than the clouds, more hot than fire, in the cold wind to fly, burning in the dark.
10  Firemen needed breathing apparatus to enter the burning house.
11  Clearing trees by burning is highly destructive of the forest environment.
12  A welcoming fire was burning in the fireplace.
13  If you focus the sun's rays on dry wood with a burning-glass, it will start burning.
14  The pilot jumped from the burning plane.
15  If you smell gas fumes or burning, take the car to your mechanic.