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How to use the word burned in a Sentence?

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The area burned in The New York TimesAcross Canada has doubled since the 70s.

– Michael Flannigan

Found on New York Times
1 year ago

We know that it is very common that a large range of chemicals are formed whenever plastic materials are burned, including styrene, benzene, and a wide number of polyaromatic hydrocarbons – all of these are strong carcinogens, and it’s important for people to avoid exposures.

– Richard Peltier

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You burned me, we were going to sell our house. Our value went phoom.

– Alan Freed/Reuters Stewart

Found on CNN
1 year ago

[The] investigation is in early stage. We believe the gunman made off in a small dark car which was later found burned out.

– Mark McEwan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Did you shorten my life now? I want to retire and enjoy it. How are we going to enjoy it? You burned me, you’ve made me an angry man.

– Jim Stewart

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Traditionally, it always burned itself out.

– Stephen Morse

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’ve already had more deaths in this flood storm since December 31 than we had in the last two fire seasons of the highest fire acreage burned in California.

– Taylor Ward

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When people talk about this, they're often talking about the acreage burned and actually not only does it not tell the whole story, but it arguably doesn't tell most of what's important about why we care about wildfires in a societal context, just because the acreage burned has been less than in recent years, the impacts of these fires have actually still been really high.

– Daniel Swain

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I started to develop insomnia and I fell into a pretty bad depression, for a long time. Something about that experience burned me out, i had a really hard time recentering. Ultimately they chalked it up to taking way too many diuretics for way too long, and it messed something up.

– Zac Efron

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The rioters burned tires, hurled rocks, Molotov cocktails and explosive devices at the forces, who responded with riot dispersal means.

– The IDF

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Here's where I sleep in a puddle, they burned my house and shot my husband seven times.

– Natalie Aristel

Found on CNN
2 years ago

They burned my house and shot my husband seven times.

– Natalie Aristel

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Program after program talked about the fear and stigma that gay men are experiencing in relation to [ monkeypox ], the shortages of vaccine, the burned-out staff, the shortages of funding to cover what has been an unanticipated public health emergency.

– Top Democrats

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There are large portions of the watershed you can see that are completely burned. It looks like burnt toothpicks sticking out of the ground for acres and acres, with the soil instability, during a heavy rain event it would be like putting water on a bunch of baby powder where it doesn't absorb at all ; it just falls.

– Las Vegas

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Parents need to own their part of it, own their responsibility to make sure, as best they can, that they aren't setting up a situation that is going to mar or impede from the celebration because somebody got burned or somebody had an injury.

– Sarah Clark

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This court has lost legitimacy. They have burned whatever legitimacy they may still have had after their gun decision, after their voting decision, after their union decision, they just took the last of it and set a torch to it.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It wasn’t hard … [the tent] was all burned up, there was nothing there.

– Bob Barnes

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I tried not to panic. i can’t believe I didn’t get burned.

– Bob Barnes

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I can’t believe I didn’t get burned.

– Bob Barnes

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There are large portions of the watershed you can see that are completely burned. It looks like burnt toothpicks sticking out of the ground for acres and acres, with the soil instability, during a heavy rain event it would be like putting water on a bunch of baby powder where it doesn't absorb at all ; it just falls. We hope to beat the monsoon season, doing some of the interventions we're going to have to do along the watershed.

– Mayor Louie Trujillo

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Many of our caregivers live in the area that burned and many still don't know if their homes are still standing — still, they put their patients first.

– New Mexico.On

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I'm reluctant to sacrifice the material in order to do that much archaeological work, in particular, radiocarbon dating is destructive by nature... Once you have burned the sample to run radiocarbon dating, it's gone.

– Frederic Gleach

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Imagine a Genoa completely burned down.

– Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

People are burned out. People are exhausted. People are concerned about how they could even make their day-by-day functional, every single day we're showing up. ... We're letting people know that there is someone here in the fight.

– Michelle Vallejo

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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