How to Use burn through in a Sentence

burn through

phrasal verb

• The blaze burned through wood pallets being stored there.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023
• Our startup has burned through $10 million of cash, much of it our own.
  — Andy Dunn, Fortune, 25 Jan. 2024
• Others burned through savings to fund their cause or died in prison.
  — Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
• The Smokehouse Creek Fire burned through over 1 million acres of Texas land in just a couple of days.
  — Mary Gilbert, CNN, 13 Mar. 2024
• But the sun will burn through the clouds earlier in the day this week in the run-up to Memorial Day and a long home stand for the Padres.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2024
• The solar rays can burn through the lens and cause serious eye injury.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 5 Feb. 2024
• The solar rays can burn through the lens and cause serious eye injury.
  — Sara Moniuszko, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2024
• Altogether, the fires have burned through 2,168 acres in Maui.
  — Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 19 Aug. 2023
• The fire is burning through and threatening groves of Joshua trees – the branching, spiky plants of the Mojave Desert that can live more than 150 years.
  — Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 2 Aug. 2023
• But in the American West, wildfires have burned through childhood.
  — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Oct. 2023
• First, the flames came storming across the vistas of the Texas Panhandle, burning through the grassy plains and scrub land of the region’s cattle ranches.
  — Sean Murphy, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2024
• Or like…there might be a hole burning through an invisible layer in the sky?
  — Daniel Rodgers, Glamour, 18 Sep. 2023
• The city's rainwater catchment basins have been so dry that one, the El Cristo basin, caught fire on Tuesday, burning through 75 acres.
  — USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2024
• Great rock stars create other rock stars, and burn through boundaries and roadblocks.
  — Evan Minsker, Pitchfork, 3 Nov. 2023
• The Kremlin’s war machine has been burning through its stocks and is scrambling for supplies with the war now in its second year.
  — Time, 8 Aug. 2023
• That blaze burned through the nearby botanical garden, which housed some of the world’s rarest tree species, charring nearly 10 acres.
  — Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2024
• With more than a million L.E.D. light bulbs, the garden expected to burn through a hundred and fifty gallons of diesel fuel each night.
  — Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• Based on Elon Musk’s idea, the startup burned through more than $450 million without coming close to a commercial project.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 15 Feb. 2024
• McCready, as per usual, was worth the price of admission on his own merit, burning through some of the hottest guitar leads one will find in all of rock.
  — Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 14 May 2024
• Cruise is also burning through cash, having gone through $1.4 billion this year.
  — Bydana Hull, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2023
• But the venture had one major problem: its first two designs didn’t work, despite the group burning through tens of millions of dollars over the course of a decade.
  — Matthew King, The New Republic, 18 Aug. 2023
• The blaze only burned through 95 acres in Alameda County and there have been no reports of injuries or structures destroyed.
  — Nollyanne Delacruz, The Mercury News, 4 June 2024
• If a wildfire were to burn through the property, residents worry that animals would be trapped against the fence.
  — Elise Schmelzer, The Denver Post, 5 May 2024
• However, a backing fire — one that moves counter to the overall direction of the wind — burns through the bottoms of grass stems, causing the upper stalk to fall and point in the direction of the GOA.
  — John Riha, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2023
• Once you’re done burning through the candle, the white pumpkin vessel can be repurposed as a bowl or neutral fall decor to keep on display.
  — Ali Faccenda, Peoplemag, 27 Sep. 2023
• Gilchrist replies, his voice brightening the way an ancient sun suddenly burns through an evanescing cloud.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 7 June 2023
• Our northern neighbor has burned through a record-breaking 8.2 million hectares so far this year, sending smoke plumes as far as Europe.
  — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 1 July 2023
• The Padres dove headlong into stars for 2023, continuing to burn through massive contract ink by the barrel.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2023
• Scientists think this thermal effect accounts for about 10 percent of what a person burns through each day.
  — Emily Willingham, Scientific American, 14 June 2023
• Pet parents are likely used to their cats and dogs burning through bursts of energy by racing around the house, and zookeepers experience the zoomies, too.
  — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 22 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024