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
• Yurovsky and his men then made a botched attempt to incinerate the bodies of Maria and Alexey.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 1 July 2018
• 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
• 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
• The hiss of incinerating pages sounded like the final gasps of hundreds of dying souls.
  — Ramin Bahrani, New York Times, 10 May 2018
• The firestorm raced across Butte County, north of Sacramento, and incinerated the town of Paradise.
  — Thomas Frank, Scientific American, 10 Oct. 2019
• The biggest fire, the Kincade Fire, has incinerated parts of the wine country in Sonoma County since last week.
  — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 1 Nov. 2019
• One kill involves Corey using a blowtorch to incinerate the face off of a marching band bully.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 19 Oct. 2022
• The carnage of the Tokyo fire-raid did not cause LeMay to stop the strategy, and his forces continued to incinerate Japanese cities in the six months that followed.
  — Paul Kennedy, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2021
• The known death toll as of Wednesday morning was 106 dead, but search teams had only been through a portion of the area incinerated in the Lahaina wildfire.
  — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2023
• The disposal of medical waste is regulated and in many cases, it must be incinerated.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2024
• The nonprofit is based in Ghana, which is one of the world’s leading receivers of secondhand clothing with 15 million garments shipped there per week, much of which ends up being incinerated or washing into the ocean and creating marine waste.
  — Rhonda Richford, WWD, 17 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024