[
US
/ˈbɝnˌsaɪd/
]
NOUN
- United States general in the American Civil War who was defeated by Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Fredericksburg (1824-1881)
How To Use Burnside In A Sentence
- R.L. Burnside sits on his plastic porch chair as calm and motionless as a stone Buddha, then his hand flashes out to swat a fly on his leg.
- Everyone but Lincoln had lost patience with McClellan's overcautiousness and when he failed to follow Lee's retreat from Antietam, Lincoln removed him and placed in command Burnside, whose defeat at Life of Abraham Lincoln Little Blue Book Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 324
- Fighting has continued to this day, but General Burnside and his defeated Army of the Potomac have retreated across the Potomac.
- Through it all, the common thread is the ancient and blessed backbeat, the timeless cry of the bottleneck guitar, and R.L. Burnside's frequently voiced benediction, ‘Well, well, well…’
- CVX was one of my favorites, had Steve Burnside, one of the coolist charters in the series 1UP RSS feed
- Then Melville himself came in, brushing back his white tufted burnsides and licking his lips and blinking his eyes -- looking for all the world like a cat at its toilet. The Deluge
- The numinous is a reliably elusive theme for a writer, and Burnside hunts it down like an indefatigable lepidopterist. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
- We climbed over the craggy outcrops of Cambro-Ordovician age Fort Burnside Formation and Jamestown Formation, crazily tilted beds of phyllite and slate and siltstone and stark white veins of calcite. "Into a light that lingers."
- In the early morning of 11 December, Burnside's engineers began laying pontoon bridges.
- The wasteful Burnside-Couch traffic "couplet" is having a "groundbreaking" tomorrow afternoon -- at least, the east side section of it. New money pit to open (Jack Bog's Blog)