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How To Use burning In A Sentence

• Here we did everything but lift up the old-fashioned coal-burning Aga cooker, which must have weighed a couple of tons at least. A CONVICTION OF GUILT
• There is a faint hissing sound and a burning smell. Times, Sunday Times
• She leaned out of the window, trying to enjoy the fresher air; a scent of burning rubber drifted in.
• Even Larry, barefooted now, and with both hands tightly clenched, such was his wrought-up condition, stood and watched with burning eyes as the aeroplane sank lower and lower in its forward swoop. The Airplane Boys among the Clouds or, Young Aviators in a Wreck
• In the midst of the church stood 12. waxe tapers of two yards long, and a fathom about in bignesse, and there stands a kettle full of waxe with about 100. weight, wherein there is alwayes the wicke of a candle burning, as it were a lampe which goeth not out day nor night. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03
• One page of the menu is devoted to cheeses (domestic and imported), another to charcuterie, salads, meat and fish, the third to items from the wood-burning oven.
• They all escaped after jumping from the top floor of the burning house thanks to their neighbours' help.
• So he entered and going up to the candles which burnt in the tent snuffed them and sprinkled levigated henbane on the wicks; after which he withdrew and waited without the marquee, till the smoke of the burning henbane reached The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• He did not look up, but he felt, he just _felt_, all the eyes of all the little meadow people and forest folk burning right into him. Mother West Wind's Children
• Measures need to be taken to mitigate the environmental effects of burning more coal.