How to Use burn in in a Sentence

burn in

verb

• More than 2,000 acres have burned in the fire, the agency said.
  — NBC News, 12 Aug. 2023
• The apartment has been burned in parts; smoke stains scar the wall.
  — Ruwaida Amer, ABC News, 9 Oct. 2024
• Oh how the candles will be lit and the wood of worm burn in a fiery dust.
  — Cameron Jenkins, Good Housekeeping, 25 May 2022
• Over 2,000 structures burned in the town, most of which were homes.
  — CBS News, 29 Dec. 2023
• Of those, nearly 80% were burned in grass and shrub fires.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2024
• The hanging scene [in The Omen] is burned in horror fans’ brains.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Apr. 2024
• In a painful deja vu, the new house burned in the Park Fire on July 25.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 11 Aug. 2024
• No one in a large group will be left out to burn in the sun with this oversized shade.
  — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 27 June 2022
• Our son’s bed started just burning in the shape of a heart.
  — Ilana Kaplan, People.com, 30 Jan. 2025
• The bodies of men and women were found burned in their own homes.
  — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 7 Oct. 2024
• Fires in Hawaii are unlike many of those burning in the U.S. West.
  — Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Aug. 2023
• Rachel Hatcher, a 16-year-old girl, was shot and killed and her body burned in a fire.
  — Chelsea Bailey, CNN, 16 Feb. 2025
• That blaze was made worse by the fact that brush had built up in an area that had not burned in years.
  — Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 1 Aug. 2024
• Three fires burned in the foothills, and sadly, a life was lost, and homes were destroyed.
  — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 14 Aug. 2024
• Fires in Hawaii are unlike many of those burning in the US West.
  — Audrey McAvoy and Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2023
• This is the third wildfire to burn in Mariposa County over the past two weeks.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 25 July 2022
• Those who can afford to buy sticks of wood to burn in small metal stoves for heat.
  — Jane Arraf, NPR, 24 Dec. 2024
• The rest was burned in waste-to-energy plants or buried in landfills.
  — Patrick Parenteau, The Conversation, 23 Sep. 2024
• Trees burned in a fire should be treated with special care.
  — Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 8 Feb. 2025
• Like, why the bikini? But in any case, I was burned in effigy.
  — Jessica Bennett, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2024
• The statue was found five days later burning in a trash can.
  — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2024
• Some have been mangled in the washing machine or burned in the dryer.
  — Marissa Evans, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2023
• The specter of burning in nuclear fires started by the war in Ukraine has moved to the back burner.
  — Jason Horowitz, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
• The craft is set to be undocked from the station and deorbit to burn in the atmosphere on Feb. 18.
  — Vladimir Isachenkov, ajc, 11 Feb. 2023
• Staff are urging people to not call 9-1-1 on the day of the burn in order to keep emergency lines open.
  — Jay R. Jordan, Chron, 17 Mar. 2022
• The fire was burning in heavy brush with a moderate rate of spread about a mile from the eastern edge of the area scorched by the Palisades Fire.
  — Tom Tapp, Deadline, 23 Jan. 2025
• The fire in the central and southern parts of Rhodes is the biggest of several still burning in the country.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 24 July 2023
• Calming music plays softly, and incense burns in the corner of the room.
  — By Chloe Herring, Brooke Henderson and Samantha J. Gross, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• They were burned in their ship with their weapons and decorations.
  — Brian Dillon, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024
• All three victims were severely burned in the crash and died at the scene, per The San Francisco Standard.
  — Escher Walcott, People.com, 15 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 15 Mar 2025