How to Use incinerate in a Sentence

incinerate

verb

• The waste is incinerated in a large furnace.
• There, flames jumped the road and incinerated a line of cars fleeing as the fire destroyed their homes.
  — J. Weston Phippen, The Atlantic, 18 June 2017
• And large, sturdy houses have risen in the area called the Wedge, where bungalows had been incinerated in the fire set off by the storm.
  — Julie Lasky, New York Times, 24 May 2017
• And yet, the rescue of this single book feels like higher stakes than any world-incinerating superhero battle.
  — Soman Chainani, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2016
• Incinerate it into black ash in the oven, pulverize it into powder, and then scatter it on anything for an instant touch of smokiness.
  — Jeff Gordinier, Esquire, 17 Mar. 2017
• It was incinerated before police even knew Dornbush was missing.
  — Rafael Olmeda, Sun-Sentinel.com, 23 June 2017
• The spacecraft would then tumble into our atmosphere and become incinerated.
  — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 6 Feb. 2017
• The shuttle and its precious human cargo were gone, incinerated in a fireball, debris raining into the Atlantic.
  — Martin Merzer, miamiherald, 28 Jan. 2016
• Soon, however, users began reporting the phones were catching fire or exploding, in one case incinerating the SUV it had been left in.
  — James Rogers, Fox News, 11 Oct. 2016
• Yurovsky and his men then made a botched attempt to incinerate the bodies of Maria and Alexey.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 1 July 2018
• Once the inner lining is filled, the bags are sent to be incinerated.
  — Dana Lee, Indianapolis Star, 22 Oct. 2017
• Rather than incinerate the birds or contribute to the city’s landfill, the birds will make good meals for needy Denverites.
  — Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 4 July 2019
• But the book doesn’t incinerate when the fire hits the cover — instead, the flames graze the edges, floating away with no wreckage left behind.
  — Jaclyn Peiser, Washington Post, 24 May 2022
• The fire incinerated a nearby house and the blast cracked walls and ceilings in Ms. Goblick’s home.
  — Michael Corkery, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2019
• The rest gets incinerated, is buried in landfills or piles up as litter on land and in the water.
  — Lisa Song, ProPublica, 19 Sep. 2023
• The camp’s crematory worked around the clock to incinerate the hundreds who died every day, the court was told.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Dec. 2022
• The camp’s crematory worked round the clock to incinerate the hundreds who died every day, the court was told.
  — Christopher F. Schuetze, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2022
• At the same time, the extreme heat of the burner incinerates the smoke particles in the air from the roaster, leaving clean exhaust.
  — Jeff Csatari, Popular Mechanics, 5 Dec. 2019
• Television images showed horses and sheep incinerated on a farm that had stood in the path of the fire.
  — NBC News, 28 June 2019
• Due to a lack of interest, Fields said the birds were incinerated.
  — Thomas Novelly, The Courier-Journal, 3 Sep. 2017
• So many prisoners were killed that the crematoria on the edge of the camp couldn’t incinerate all the bodies.
  — Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2020
• The Bronze Fury attacks with flame and teeth, incinerating and eating all who aren’t quick enough to escape him.
  — Lauren Morgan, EW.com, 29 July 2024
• In 2020, the wildfires that incinerated nearly half of the island took the Southern Ocean Lodge, too.
  — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 10 July 2024
• But on a stormy evening five days later, a fire broke out on the top story, incinerating a classroom.
  — Perry Stein, Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2019
• Most of it is in low-Earth orbit, and pieces of space junk can lose altitude over time and incinerate in the atmosphere.
  — Alice Gorman, CNN, 8 May 2021
• Visitors can see the ovens used to incinerate the remains of those slaughtered.
  — Marc Santora, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2020
• The top floor was incinerated and water ruined the rest.
  — New York Times, 4 Mar. 2018
• Its main building had been incinerated by airstrikes, while a film archive dating back to the 1940s, one of the largest in Africa, had been blown open by gunfire.
  — Declan Walsh Ivor Prickett, New York Times, 5 June 2024
• But much of the clothing will not ultimately appear in the video; it will instead be incinerated in an RV fire that will happen outside the L.A. video set a week from now.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 6 Sep. 2024
• The threat to incinerate millions of people in the name of national security is both bad policy and morally bankrupt.
  — Nina Tannenwald, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2018

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2024