How to Use burn down in a Sentence

burn down

phrasal verb

• The Germans and their accomplices used bloodhounds, burned down houses and destroyed walls and floors in their attempt to uncover hiding places.
  — Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 29 July 2024
• For Taff, a top priority moving forward is burning down costs down to the point where geothermal is competitive with natural gas.
  — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 4 Sep. 2024
• In the end, more than two-thirds of the city burned down.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2023
• My house had just burned down and there was all this chaos.
  — Ashley Cullins, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Dec. 2023
• Yeah, [on] top of that, the kids were about to go to school but both their schools burned down.
  — Staff Author, Peoplemag, 12 Aug. 2023
• Two weeks after the killings, the crime scene — the Turner house — burned down.
  — Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 4 Apr. 2024
• An apartment complex that burned down used to sit at the site.
  — Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2023
• The house was burned down days later and Williams’ body was never found.
  — Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 1 Aug. 2024
• And then just a few weeks later, they were firebombed overnight, and one of the buildings burned down.
  — Sam Hurwitt, The Mercury News, 1 Feb. 2024
• Friends and neighbors were trying to tell them that their house in Fort Worth had burned down.
  — Hojun Choi, Dallas News, 13 Sep. 2023
• The neighbor kid burned down your cherry, but the grapevine’s looking fine.
  — Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Aug. 2023
• And think of Flock, who once imagined burning down her rapist’s store.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
• Cal Neva burned down in 1937 but was rebuilt in record speed.
  — Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023
• But according to Civil Beat, the house next door was also made of the same wood – and burned down.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 22 Aug. 2023
• Well, there are still cities across America that were burnt down.
  — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 5 May 2023
• The Aztec theater burned down in the late 1950s, a historian told Williams; the lot has been vacant since.
  — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 24 May 2023
• According to the listing, the south wing of the house burned down in 1830 and was rebuilt some hundreds of years later.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 10 May 2023
• The teens are left standing in the snow watching their only shelter burn down, in the cold winter night.
  — Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 May 2023
• Watching closely, Hamas, an ally of Iran, chose to burn down the house, returning the group and its cause to the spotlight.
  — Fareed Zakaria, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
• Chaos breaks out to end the clip as the city’s burning down, and Scott is launching grapes into the camera at the fusion restaurant.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 26 July 2024
• The islanders, of course, are looking to get back to their homes to see if their pets are alive, to see if their house has completely burned down.
  — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 16 Aug. 2023
• The passenger station burned down in 1904, and the freight depot suffered the same fate four years later.
  — Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Feb. 2024
• Beside him was the brick chimney of a house that burned down decades ago, and below was the concrete dam that had formed Copco Lake.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2024
• In 2019, a home being built by Brooks Houck was burned down in what city officials said was an arson case.
  — Rachel Smith, The Courier-Journal, 8 Sep. 2023
• The original location burned down in the blazes that followed the 1906 earthquake.
  — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2023
• One of the homes that was created as part of the set for Tim Burton’s 2003 fantasy drama Big Fish has burnt down.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 July 2023
• Armed with machetes and pitchforks, these fighters seized a cache of muskets, then burned down a mansion.
  — Boyce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024
• Local fire crews continue to work on stamping out the blaze and clean up efforts after the fire burned down 48 homes.
  — oregonlive, 3 Aug. 2023
• Three white vehicles were in varying states of destruction, with the front of one burned down to its metal frame.
  — Aric Toler, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
• One son becomes obsessed with the art of setting fires, almost burning down his school.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024