How to Use burning in a Sentence

burning

adjective

• She stared at the burning embers for a long time.
• The medicine produced a burning sensation on my tongue.
• Symptoms include itchy, burning eyes.
• And, of course, the most burning question of all: Who is the Gargoyle King?
  — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 13 Dec. 2018
• One man used a garden house to douse a burning wing that landed on the street.
  — Amy Taxin, The Seattle Times, 5 Feb. 2019
• All 22 crew members were rescued, and the ship was left adrift and burning.
  — Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 18 Feb. 2022
• This hand-poured, clean-burning soy candle will scent your apartment for up to 60 hours.
  — Bon Appétit, 26 Apr. 2022
• The sensors can even determine whether or not a fire is fast- or slow-burning.
  — Billy Cadden, Popular Science, 17 June 2020
• All this has much in common with a burning issue that surfaced in the early 1950s.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 23 Jan. 2023
• Bluenoses were bound to be pushed out of joint, so to speak, by a festival that was more Burning Man than County Fair.
  — Logan Jenkins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 June 2017
• Nathan Gemeinhart, 42, was found shot to death Aug. 9 inside a vacant and burning house.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 1 Jan. 2023
• Some symptoms to look out for include itchy, red or burning eyes, blurred vision and headache.
  — Ashley Stahl, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
• Two men in dying towns, residents of a burning world, had found a path to eternal life.
  — Matt Wolfe, New Republic, 2 Aug. 2017
• God’s being, which extends from the center of the atom to the burning edge of the universe and beyond beyond, is what Job must accept.
  — Christian Wiman, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
• The burning feeling had grown more intense, and small blisters were bubbling up on her skin.
  — Lindsey Lanquist, SELF, 28 June 2017
• All right, one sec, I’m also being told to tell you not to do any of that other stuff either, the scalding and burning stuff.
  — Gary Gramling, SI.com, 6 July 2018
• Pictures and video show a burning bag with wires protruding from it on the floor of the London Underground car.
  — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 15 Sep. 2017
• The issue has become one of the most burning problems with more than 15 percent of Croats living and working abroad.
  — Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2019
• Check out their juiciest quotes below, broken down by the most burning questions raised.
  — David Canfield, EW.com, 5 June 2019
• Even those of the opinion there wasn't a burning need for a redo -- reimagined or otherwise -- should conclude there's a place for this one too.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 3 Dec. 2021
• The entire ecosystem of the burning sections of rainforest will be altered.
  — Natasha Daly, National Geographic, 23 Aug. 2019
• At the outset, smoke and a strong burning smell leaked into the ballpark, even with the roof and outdoor panels closed, from a large fire at a nearby recycling plant.
  — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2021
• It was fired by his burning lead guitar line, which took influence from Indian music and which served as the song’s hook.
  — Jim Farber, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2023
• Soon, Amazon’s voice assistant will be able to answer your most burning question: Alexa, does this make my butt look big?
  — Sarah Halzack, The Denver Post, 28 Apr. 2017
• The most burning question was, when would David Price have the spine to apologize to Dennis Eckersley?
  — Jeff Jacobs, courant.com, 12 Aug. 2017
• But over the years, the Union and Confederate armies took turns attacking the town, killing and burning – demoralizing the hearts and souls of those living there.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 16 Jan. 2021
• The most burning issues of today are corruption and poverty.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Apr. 2019
• After the finale aired two weeks ago, Herron provided answers to a few of our most burning questions.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 28 July 2021
• Your home becomes an oasis with the help of Brooklinen’s clean-burning and mineral-based candles.
  — Anna Tingley, Variety, 10 Oct. 2022
• Perhaps one of the most burning questions of all is whether the megalodon somehow survived and continues to roam the depths of unexplored waters today.
  — Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 16 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024