How to Use burn up in a Sentence

burn up

phrasal verb
  • Taylor Swift and Ice Spice are getting ready to burn up the charts.
    Mesfin Fekadu, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 May 2023
  • The peanut crop failed, the cotton and corn crops burned up, and their income that first year was less than $200.
    Kevin Sullivan, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
  • She wasn’t burned up with resentment and anger and hate.
    Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2023
  • Most of the time when samples come back through the atmosphere, they’re burned up.
    Lee Roop | Lroop@al.com, al, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Boats in the harbor had burned up, and others were on the brink of explosion.
    Alaa Elassar, CNN, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The fires have burned up the historic town of Lahaina and destroyed homes and businesses.
    Chuck Todd, NBC News, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Nearly all of the spacecraft should have burned up during reentry.
    Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 22 Jan. 2024
  • For the video, Lipa burns up the dance floor in a rehearsal room, lending to the song’s future dance-floor domination.
    Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Houses and cars are seen completely burned up, with sounds of gunfire and clashes heard in the background.
    Kareem Khadder, CNN, 12 Apr. 2024
  • More than 1 million acres of land have burned up in the fires, including the Smokehouse Creek Fire, the largest wildfire in Texas history.
    Li Cohen, CBS News, 7 Mar. 2024
  • When a space rock enters the atmosphere on its own and burns up, it's called a meteor, or shooting star.
    Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Nobody can be both the magnifying glass and the ant burning up under its glare.
    Jessica Kiang, Variety, 7 Aug. 2023
  • That November, a wildfire started burning up in the foothills.
    Kathleen McGrory, ProPublica, 6 Jan. 2024
  • As the Earth moves through this field of icy comet remnants, those tiny pieces burn up in our atmosphere, producing a shooting star.
    Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 27 June 2023
  • If your cheeks are burning up with a once-a-week schedule, for instance, take a break until the irritation goes away.
    Jenna Ryu, SELF, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Taking a brisk walk after a meal can burn up to 15% more calories than walking on an empty stomach.
    Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Most of the rocket burned up during reentry, but this booster stage is so massive that large fragments fell to the ground, or into the sea, intact.
    Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Critics suggested these planes would burn up on their descent back to Earth, Suzuki says.
    Sarah Wells, Popular Mechanics, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Its fall-forward scent, which includes notes of cinnamon, clove, ginger, and sweet orange, can burn up to 150 hours.
    Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Unless the aerodynamics of reentry are worked out precisely for a proper shield, the warhead will burn up and fail to hit the target on the ground.
    Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
  • During the fall, the craft breaks apart into smaller pieces, most of which burn up upon reentry into the Earth's atmosphere.
    Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Could it at least be pulverized into boulders small enough to burn up in Earth’s atmosphere?
    Ramin Skibba, WIRED, 30 Aug. 2023
  • When Earth passes through that trail during its journey around the sun, some of those particles enter the atmosphere and burn up in dazzling streaks across the sky.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Nov. 2023
  • This led engineers to believe the spacecraft had broken apart or burned up during re-entry.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The fire destroys her latest manuscript and threatens to burn up Ben’s second chance at a vocation.
    Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Opponents of the bill can require the Senate to burn up to 30 hours after the Senate breaks the filibuster before the Senate can vote on final passage.
    Chad Pergram, Fox News, 8 Feb. 2024
  • When meteors burn up in the atmosphere, the molten remains condense into sand-grain-size orbs called spherules that cascade to earth like glitter.
    Seth Fletcher, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2023
  • At around 50 miles (80 kilometers) above Earth’s surface, the satellite is expected to break apart and the majority of the fragments will burn up in the atmosphere.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Two wildfires that are burning up the Texas panhandle have merged to create a super-wildfire that covers more than 1 million acres.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Many of the space station's modules and hardware are expected to burn up, melt away or vaporize upon re-entry.
    Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2024

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