BURNT in a Sentence
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91 example sentences for BURNT, such as:
1. A burnt child dreads the fire.
2. The burnt child fears the fire.
3. 'Even burnt, it's filthy,' he said.
4. And Hilda rose as if it had burnt her.
5. The city was burnt to a desolate waste.
2. The burnt child fears the fire.
3. 'Even burnt, it's filthy,' he said.
4. And Hilda rose as if it had burnt her.
5. The city was burnt to a desolate waste.
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Meanings and Examples of BURNT
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burnt
a. treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point
a. destroyed or badly damaged by fire
Classic Sentence: (74 in 5 pages)
1 These were large sheets of paper which had to be closely covered with writing, and as soon as they were so covered, they were burnt in the furnace.
2 Sir John and I will unpack the hampers, here where the grass is burnt, where we had the picnic last year.
3 Her hand burnt in the sun on the window sill.
4 He was greatly excited, horribly fevered, bit his nails down to the quick, spoke in a hard rattling voice, and with lips that were black and burnt up.
5 Rotherwood was not, however, without defences; no habitation, in that disturbed period, could have been so, without the risk of being plundered and burnt before the next morning.
6 Front-de-Boeuf was burnt alive for a less matter, for he kept a good table for his prisoners, only put too much garlic in his last dish of pottage.
7 And it was to be fed with a new fuel, that burnt in small quantities at a great heat, under peculiar conditions.
8 The idea of a new concentrated fuel that burnt with a hard slowness at a fierce heat was what first attracted Clifford.
9 'Even burnt, it's filthy,' he said.
10 And Hilda rose as if it had burnt her.
11 Other evidence she did not find, at least for some days, when she began to howl about the burnt photograph.
12 Mr. Chitling added, with strong marks of irritation, that the new way of fumigating clothes up yonder was infernal unconstitutional, for it burnt holes in them, and there was no remedy against the County.
13 As the brilliant light of the lamp which burnt before its door, guided her to the spot, the clock struck eleven.
14 He washed himself, and rubbed his clothes; there were spots that would not be removed, but he cut the pieces out, and burnt them.
15 His red hair hung down upon his bloodless face; his beard was torn, and twisted into knots; his eyes shone with a terrible light; his unwashed flesh crackled with the fever that burnt him up.
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1 I tried a dating agency once, but got my fingers badly burnt - I'll never do it again.
2 Many people offered to donate blood and skin for the badly burnt worker.
3 The cancer cells are burnt out using a laser beam.
4 All the police had to go on was a half - burnt Christmas card.
5 A burnt child dreads the fire.
6 The burnt child fears the fire.
7 The city was burnt to a desolate waste.
8 All his belongings were burnt in the fire.
9 I was astonished when I heard the hospital had burnt down.
10 I burnt my tongue on some soup last night.
11 He who has burnt his mouth blows his soup.
12 A cinema was burnt out in north London last night.
13 She got her fingers burnt when she set up a business and had all her money stolen by her partner.
14 The plane was completely burnt out after the crash.
15 Mason, shivering as some one chanced to open the door, asked for more coal to be put on the fire, which had burnt out its flame, though its mass of cinder still shone hot and red.