How To Use Burnt In A Sentence
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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
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At the Bradford football stadium disaster on 11 May 1985, 56 fans were killed when a stand burnt down.
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The common basis of all gumbos is the roux, a roughly equal combination of flour and fat cooked until very nearly burnt; it is the dark smoky roux that gives the gumbo its colour and flavour.
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We were visiting homes and hospitals to see football fans who had been badly burnt.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was a patch of raw skin on my back where the sun had burnt it.
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A slender man with burnt honey skin and almond eyes grinned and gave Tala a welcoming bow.
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Unlike much of the valley, the shrubs and trees closer to the building were unburnt.
WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
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These conditions are challenging - retaining acidity and preventing sunburnt fruit are two of the main problems - but the abundance of very young vines is still a huge factor limiting the overall quality.
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He put his hand into the pocket of his coat and pulled out a bubbly, burnt lump of clinker rock.
SMOKE AND MIRRORS
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The wind carried the sickly smell of burnt flesh and the chemical smell of the fires.
Times, Sunday Times
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I must have cut a wretched figure, filthy and sunburnt, to the brother who heard my explanations about who I was and why I was here.
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Gang awa, ane o 'ye, hinnies, up to the heugh head, and gie them a cry in case they're within hearing; the car-cakes will be burnt to a cinder.
The Antiquary — Volume 02
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Many of the houses are burnt, the tin roofs caved in over charred beams.
Times, Sunday Times
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The last Mariposa lily vanished from the burnt grasses as the California Indian summer dreamed itself out in purple mists on the windless air.
CHAPTER XXXVI
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When canals dropped the water table below the surface, and the sawgrass was cleared, the peat dried, shrank and blew away, or burnt like a cigar, smoldering for months and years, filling the sky with smoke.
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The final image was a still they had recovered from somewhere of the burnt-out wreck of Allen's van.
LOST SUMMER
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The name refers to the fact that splinters of cannel can be burnt like a candle.
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Today the burnt-out houses stand as a monument to the failed hope that democratic rule would rescue the delta.
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These hutments were burnt down and the menfolk were killed.
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Released in 1981, it's like the last Hollywood movie of the 1960s, in which the aspirations and ideals of that long-gone decade finally soured irrevocably on its dazed, burnt-out survivors.
Cutter's Way is a cinematic masterpiece
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To us it smells like burnt chilli and it is slightly unusual.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'd like to have dinner with somebody in Olympia who can recognize burnt umber.
FOOLS GOLD
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Extra energy is burnt after eating because of the increased activity of digestive enzymes and faster blood flow.
Times, Sunday Times
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The solid sludge is siphoned off and burnt in a steam engine to produce enough electricity to process the next batch of waste.
Times, Sunday Times
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All electrical wiring had been burnt through, so the team had to rely on their own portable light sources.
Times, Sunday Times
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The sudden compression of air as the rammer thrust with the fleece could explode the residues of unburnt powder that was caked to the breech walls, so a gunner, wearing a leather thumbstall, pressed his thumb over the vent to stop the airflow.
Sharpe's Waterloo
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Venetians cheered from the rooftops as the docks burnt but the medieval city escaped damage.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's a day where people celebrate by drinking the worst-tasting beer they can find, wearing ratty blue singlet tops with Australian flags as a cape, eating burnt "snags" from the "barbie" and listening to the Triple J Hottest 100 countdown on the radio from the plush confines of a deck chair placed in a kiddie's wading pool.
A List For Australia Day
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But best of all was the pool: where most villas boast pocket-handkerchief paddling pools, here was a pool in which to do solitary laps before breakfast, while staring out over miles of burnt-umber fields.
Sleeping with the Finzi-Continis: Sicily's Madonie mountains
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About 4,000 villages have been burnt and razed to the ground in an attempt to depopulate the area.
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MacTavish Mhor, wished in her heart that the stern old carlin had been burnt on the day her husband had his due.
Chronicles of the Canongate
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The sun set in a pyrotechnic display that burnt up the whole western sky.
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The greasy water did put out the fire, but the dress was burnt, torn and stained.
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The place was a mess; all the tables were either broken or burnt to cinders.
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The wind carried the sickly smell of burnt flesh and the chemical smell of the fires.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sitting in the lobby of Taj Coromandel and sipping a rich brew of cappuccino, pony-tailed and wearing sunburnt, athletic skin of a western beach boy, Nadaka seems far removed from the austerity of Auroville.
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i only like nasi goreng babi and mee goreng babi chiu ish wan ppl 15 years later to rememember 15 years ago someone kanna burnt because he ask question related to pork burger??
Www.hardwarezone.com.sg
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It is hard to imagine six men crossing the Pacific without any sunburnt backs or peeled noses.
Times, Sunday Times
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Behind the wall's remains she could see the streets, littered with the burnt-out husks of cars and buses, many of which lay on their sides on the broken bitumen.
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9 And burnt his beastly heart to efforce her chastity. efforce > force, overcome by force (SUS); _hence: _ violate
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
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The free oxygen then burnt with the graphite core, which then reacted with the hydrogen.
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There was rich banqueting in his great hall when his harvest was ingathered, and Zeus and all the other gods feasted on the fat burnt-offerings, but no gift was set apart for the virgin child of
Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
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The city was burnt to a desolate waste.
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The air was pervaded by a sickening sweet smell of burnt meat and charred wood.
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Anne burnt the crumpled pages in the grate, including the blank pages underneath, all the way down to the first undented sheet.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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The child sat trifling with the burnt bread upon his plate.
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Many people offered to donate blood and skin for the badly burnt worker.
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If it burnt more quickly, the glowing embers might reach her skin and wake her in time to save herself.
Times, Sunday Times
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The whole of his arm below the elbow was badly burnt.
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My toast was burnt this morning.
The Sun
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The base is made of rippled walnut and amboyna, inset with marquetry of acanthus in satinwood (sand-burnt for three-dimensional effect), which was done by a Welsh firm, Anita Marquetry.
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The cancer cells are burnt out using a laser beam.
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If the wine smelt of soot, hot tarmac or burnt rubber, you knew it was a South African.
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The rioters burnt buses, barricaded the streets and torched their own houses.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their houses by the river, to the number of twenty-two (_palagi e case grandi_), were sacked and burnt, and many among the chief of those who bore the Bardi name were driven from the city.
Romola
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What does a farmer with burnt fingers do?
Times, Sunday Times
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We may have to give up saying, for instance, that a piece of paper is simply destroyed when it is burnt to ashes, or even that a human being simply ceases to exist upon undergoing a fatal accident.
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Now all that remains is a twisted burnt out shell.
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There were also several polished gems and stones, each serving a different purpose, along with many partially burnt candles.
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YOU would have to eat 320 slices of burnt toast a day to make any significant increase to your cancer risk, an expert claims.
The Sun
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My head reeled; white blotches burnt at the corners of my vision, threatening to occlude the sight before me.
GALILEE
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There I saw a piece of ye jury wall as its Called being in arches and was a place where the Jews burnt their sacrifices.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary
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There is a particular smell, a compound, I think, of floor polish and burnt egg, which I shall forever associate with boarding school.
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When fertility decreased, the garden would be abandoned and a new patch of land burnt for use.
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By the time he arrived at the legation the sun had burnt off the mist and the temperature was already in the high twenties centigrade.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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Wait until only the wealthy will be the only ones able to afford food which will become expensive due to it being scarce due to the increase of burnt out crops and rise in pestilence.
Think Progress » Global warming is a ‘nightmare’ for coffee.
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In light of these video issues, the burnt-in subtitles may seem minor, but it was another roadblock to enjoyment of the film.
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The city was all burnt down during the the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.
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Once a week my friends and I would strip off layers of burnt skin and weigh them to see who shed the most.
Times, Sunday Times
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They nodded to each other by way of breaking the ice of unacquaintance, and the first stranger handed his neighbour the family mug — a huge vessel of brown ware, having its upper edge worn away like a threshold by the rub of whole generations of thirsty lips that had gone the way of all flesh, and bearing the following inscription burnt upon its rotund side in yellow letters there is no fun
Wessex Tales
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He has had his fingers burnt by deals that turned out badly.
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The argument echoed historian G.M. Trevelyan's quip about the French Revolution: ‘if the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.’
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They are burnt, diced or melted in acid in front of onlookers who react with polite applause.
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Some of his hair was also burnt and his feet were swollen, the after effects of his barefooted trot out of the forest.
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We become garrulous; hair thick with dust and salt, knuckles burnt.
Times, Sunday Times
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The particles in a low earth orbit may be numerous, but mainly they consist of parts that burnt and broke up upon re-entry, and are thus just small particles and flakes.
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This species inhabits both the open heaths and the woodland borders and often takes advantage of patches of heath that have recently been burnt.
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One forces house was burnt down by a serious fire due to recently installed faulty wiring.
The Sun
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White and yellow flowers among the darker ruby reds and burnt oranges, often soften the overall effect and leads the eye through the flower bed.
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For any kids who have not burnt enough energy during the day, there's a perfect slope across the road to go sledging in safety.
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I'm giggling just looking at the big elephant seals up there covering themselves in sand so they don't get sunburnt.
The Sun
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From then on, it was a matter of watching the fire, poking in more sticks as the embers burnt low.
Times, Sunday Times
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My mother would try to straighten my hair and the stuff burnt my scalp.
Times, Sunday Times
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Coming together to launch NAHM for fall 2011, they fused their combined international experiences into one city-savvy line: think a burnt orange shirtdress with asymmetrical hem or black maxi dress with a shorter underskirt and long, sheer overlay.
Meredith Barnett: Two's a Charm: Meet the Design Duo Behind NAHM
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When I was a small child, I imagined that hell consisted of caves in which the damned were trapped, tortured and burnt.
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The unlicensed driver of a car in which two friends burnt to death after a crash has been jailed for ten years.
Times, Sunday Times
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I went back to my hotel to apply lotion liberally to my sunburnt skin.
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The comrades he lost were those burnt to death in aircraft crashing in flames.
Times, Sunday Times
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The boy watched with curiosity as the burnt, sodden pieces of wood peeked out of the water, unmoving.
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His designer high-top sneakers skidded to a halt in front of me, and I half expected to smell burnt rubber.
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They can be cut and burnt to produce steam to power turbines.
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They are made of chemo ceramic - a mixture of ceramic powder with 15 hardeners, including sodium bentonite, quartz and felspur, and burnt over 24 hours.
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A smaller pit 5m away contained animal bone and burnt flint, including an axehead calcined by intense heat, and a unique pottery ‘golf ball’.
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I love the smell of spent gunpowder, a new box of bluerock, WD-40, Fast Orange or any of those shop soaps like that, and leaded fuel, nitromethane, burnt differential oil and all those nice racing smells.
Sunsets and Open Threads « Whatever
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Hindu leaders appealed for calm after a temple was burnt to the ground.
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She was of a burnt sorrel hue, with a little mixture of dapple-grey spots, but above all she had horrible tail; for it was little more or less than every whit as great as the steeple-pillar of St. Mark beside Langes: and squared as that is, with tuffs and ennicroches or hair-plaits wrought within one another, no otherwise than as the beards are upon the ears of corn.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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A brown sunburnt gentleman, who appears in some inaptitude for sleep to be wandering abroad rather than counting the hours on a restless pillow, strolls hitherward at this quiet time.
Bleak House
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Kyrie, expurgator scelerum et largitor gratitæ; quæsumus propter nostrasoffensas noli nos relinquere, O consolator dolentis animæ, eleyson (ed. Burntisland, 929).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
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The plaintiff, being unaware of this exemption, paid dues upon limestone which he had landed and ultimately burnt into lime.
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The image of her empty eyes and blank face was burnt into his memory.
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I have, I believe, at last succeeded in arranging the proper proportions, and in substituting, for the worse than useless crude alum, the alum ustum or burnt alum, which is not affected by moisture
Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling a
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There was a smell of burnt rubber and shards of glass littered the pub entrance.
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Once a star has burnt most of its hydrogen to helium, it starts to cool.
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BRICK (derived according to some etymologists from the Teutonic _bricke_, a disk or plate; but more authoritatively, through the French _brique_, originally a "broken piece," applied especially to bread, and so to clay, from the Teutonic _brikan_, to break), a kind of artificial stone generally made of burnt clay, and largely used as a building material.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
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This was unforgivable form - but I was hot, sweating, badly sunburnt, my feet were freezing, wet and blistered, I was frantic with thirst, hungry and utterly dispirited.
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Large deposits of ash, burnt clay and associated briquetage have been found in numerous places along this coastal strip.
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Two police officers were injured and a police jeep was partially burnt when the gagster, S 'Kora' Natarajan (28), allegedly attacked them with petrol bombs and a sickle.
The Times of India
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Then I asked for a cataplasm, composed of radish-roots, mustard-seed, onions and garlic roasted, mithridate, salt, and soot from a chimney where wood only has been burnt.
Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire
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Buses were destroyed and a luxury tourist hotel burnt to the ground, although no holidaymakers were injured.
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Larkin had his diaries destroyed, Hardy burnt all his personal papers, then got his second wife to put her name to the biography he had actually written himself.
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The people also held various kinds of burial rituals and burnt incense on special days.
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It is certainly true that the purer is the acetylene burnt, both as regards freedom from phosphorus and absence of products of polymerisation, the longer do the burners last; and it has been claimed that a burner constructed at its jets of some non-porous substance, e.g., "ruby," does not choke as quickly as do steatite ones.
Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use
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The child sat trifling with the burnt bread upon his plate.
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The alarms were put down to unburnt fuel on aircraft take-off.
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I don't recall effigies of previous PMs burnt by angry crowds in the middle East and chanting wishing he was dead.
EXCLUSIVE: Locals Object to Blairs' New Home Planning Application
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The creature was digging its tiny hands into a burnt log, and its face was covered in black soot.
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… Every time he closed his eyes, her adumbrated silhouette burnt with inedible precision into his retina, bought back the pain he was trying to run from.
Extending Your Vocabulary « Write Anything
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In 1543 he was condemned to be burnt as a heretic for his adherence to Calvinism, but he was reprieved by Henry VIII and on his release from prison returned to St George's.
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Other trees were burnt to clear the land for farming.
America Past and Present
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Key colours are brown and grey with splashes of burnt orange.
Times, Sunday Times
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The skiing instructor was a tall, sunburnt man.
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The following year most of the brewhouse was burnt down, but was soon rebuilt.
Times, Sunday Times
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This process unfortunately requires for its prompt success the use of a very large quantity of spiegel or of ferro-manganese, in order to sufficiently carburize and deoxidize the burnt iron, which is the final product of the blowing.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882
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Nor is there any point in throwing serious money at this kind of burnt offering.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fires have burnt most of the uprights to charred stumps but the thick wooden corner posts are still intact.
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He remarks at Memphis how the unburnt brick of which the mounds are made up had in many places become remanie into a stratified deposit -- distinguishable from Nile mud chiefly by the pottery fragments -- and notes the bearing of this fact on the Cairo mounds.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2
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This is a mixture of yellow ochre and burnt umber applied to previously dampened paper.
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For a less conventional colour scheme, she suggests focusing on subtle autumn hues such as plum or burnt orange, with flecks of gold.
Times, Sunday Times
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Rusted metal, bits of concrete and cinder block, patches of burnt, weedy turf.
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Increase the amount you eat to replace calories burnt off by exercise.
Alternative Health Care for Women
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I, for one, think his burnt sienna skin goes perfectly with his plasticine Ken-doll haircut.
Think Progress » Boehner Tells Bankers To Fight Financial Reform: ‘Don’t Let Those Little Punk Staffers Take Advantage Of You’
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The cigarette dangled from the corner of her red-smudged lips, its burnt and ashy tip sending up thin trails of smoke into the already stuffy air.
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This he pleads with his Father, for his intercession is made in the virtue of his satisfaction; by his own blood he entered into the holy place (Heb.ix. 12), as the high priest, on the day of atonement, sprinkled the blood of the sacrifice at the same time that he burnt incense within the veil, Lev. xvi.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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Solid wastes are either burnt or buried in landfill tips and fluid wastes are dumped in the sea.
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Some fine examples of this included her cherry blossom jersey gown with appliquéd ribbon straps and a burnt sienna crocodile top with a tulip print evening skirt.
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A washy monochrome, its broad rectangles of turpentine-thinned burnt sienna lack not only the powerful materiality of the other paintings, but the intensity of fully saturated color as well.
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Thieves snaffled all the goods from the burnt warehouse.
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Criticising the conclusion of a passage in Milton's treatise, the language of the first portion of which is pronounced "too sublime and angelical for mortal creatures to comprehend it," the Answerer declares, "This frothy discourse, were it not sugared over with a little neat language, would appear so immeritous, so contrary to all humane learning, yea truth and common experience itself, that all that read it must needs count it worthy to be burnt by the hangman.
The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649
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During the Restoration its rooms saw many grand assemblies (at one, Samuel Pepys burnt his periwig on a candle).
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The wood of it is full of sap, and as it burns sends forth a very biting smoke; and the ashes of it thoroughly burnt are so acrimonious, that they make a lye extremely detersive.
Symposiacs
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There were no obvious landmarks, not unless one counted the burnt-out cars.
THE IMAGE OF LAURA
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Some of the protesters burnt an effigy of the Health Minister.
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Leviticus 9 : 10 But the fat, and the kidneys, and the caul above the liver of the sin offering, he burnt upon the altar; as the LORD commanded Moses.
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The sunburnt grass breathed a harvest breath of dry sweetness and content.
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You wouldn't go back into the sun after getting sunburnt.
The Sun
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We need an immediate ban on the creation of new virtual animals, cute or otherwise, and existing ones will have to either be quarantined on an unconnected server or burnt in a big insanitary heap of pixels.
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The body was found among the remains of a burnt-out cottage.
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Two hundred years ago, revolutionary fervour burnt this church to the ground.
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All bodies should be buried in deep pits outside of the village and their clothes should also be burnt.
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Photographs also included the burnt patch of stubble in the field that had been set alight by the firing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Forswonck and forswatt) ouerlaboured and sunneburnt.
Shepheardes Calendar
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We must sacrifice the most valued possession among us and make it a burnt offering.
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Besides offering run-of-the mill pub grub such as fish and chips, the updated menus promised to tantalise taste buds with some more exotic-sounding fare such as black olive bruschetta and charred cod, burnt lemon and Chardonnay risotto.
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And this despite having had my own pudgy fingers burnt in such a fashion on more than one occasion.
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They had been doused in petrol and burnt.
Times, Sunday Times
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Burnt Shadows begins begins in Nagasaki at the end of World War II, and ends shortly after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center.
Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie: Questions
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At left, burnt trees in a peatland area near Pelalawan
Every Tree Counts
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People were wearing dust masks and everything stank of burnt plastic.
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There is indeed a great deal of very evident brickwork, which is never fresh or loud in colour, but always burnt out, as it were, always exquisitely mild.
Italian Hours
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Extra energy is burnt after eating because of the increased activity of digestive enzymes and faster blood flow.
Times, Sunday Times
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We must sacrifice the most valued possession among us and make it a burnt offering.
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About 5000 hectares of bushland south of Kalbarri was burnt on Friday.
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I like my steak burnt to a cinder on the outside and blood red and juicy inside.
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I was astonished when I heard the hospital had burnt down.
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There, she runs ashtanga retreats and 'visioning' workshops to help burnt-out professionals 'unlock their inner abundance'.
Times, Sunday Times
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The unfortunate “Cabinet Library Editor,” or whatever his title was, broke down; and I let him off, ” without paying me; and this alone remains of the misventure; a thing not fit for you, nor indeed at bottom for anybody, though I have never burnt it yet.
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
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But when the slums are burnt down to raise high rise buildings, they are completely quiet, they don't protest.
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I burnt the roof of my mouth on some hot soup.
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By making the bold promise, he had burnt his bridges , for now he had no option but to go forward with the project.
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` ` Gang awa, ane o ye, hinnies, up to the heugh head, and gie them a cry in case they're within hearing; the car-cakes will be burnt to a cinder. ''
The Antiquary
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You do not want a burnt offering.
Christianity Today
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You would be sunburnt quickly on the beach.
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The child burnt its fingers/itself while playing with a match.
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The gunpowder without the mephitis being fired, the combustion was soon communicated to the other extremity of the train, and to the phosphorus, which took fire with decrepitation, burnt rapidly, with a bright flame, slightly coloured with veilow and green, and left on the wood a black mark, as of charcoal.
A General collection of the best and most interesting voyages and travels in all parts of the world [microform] : many of which are now first translated into English : digested on a new plan
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Getting sunburnt was a hazard, though.
Times, Sunday Times
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When he mended the fire in the big living room, he would linger as long as he could beside the glowing coals, for although the fire burnt all day, the rest of the room remained cold.
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It's only the next morning, in daylight for the first time, that I realise his whole body is red raw sunburnt and flaking off all over.
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The bitumen melted on the road outside and stuck to our thongs - it was the first summer I remember I actually chose to wear shoes - even the bindi-eyes burnt through your calluses.
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That's right, it's because we're human… we bleed when we're cut, we singe when we're burnt, and it all leaves so many little dents and scars.
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The child sat trifling with the burnt bread upon his plate.
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He who has burnt his mouth blows his soup.
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It is too late to come with the water when the house is burnt down.
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In the sky to the left of the monarch's head paint appeared to have been burnt away.
Times, Sunday Times
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Using sewing or manicure scissors, carefully snip out the burnt carpet fibres; or use tweezers to pull them out.
Times, Sunday Times
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The cake was burnt to a cinder.
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What, with careless exaggeration, he had said to a friend some months before, on setting forth his _Elegy on the Death of a Young Man_, "The thing has made my name hereabouts more famous than twenty years of practice would have done; but it is a name like that of him who burnt the Temple of Ephesus: God be merciful to me a sinner!" might now with all seriousness be said of the impression his _Robbers_ made on the harmless townsfolk of Stuttgart.
The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works
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“To name the Nazi genocide ‘the Holocaust,’ ” the philosopher Gillian Rose warned, “is already to over-unify it and to sacralize it, to see it as providential purpose—for in the Hebrew scriptures, a holocaust refers to a burnt sacrifice which is offered in its entirety to God without any part of it being consumed.”
Holocaust and Israel
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In January 2001 three-quarters of their pavilion was burnt down, costing an estimated £200,000 to repair, and the metal shutters were graffitied just last week.
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Getty Images A fireman continues to dowse the burnt remains of a house in Ein Hod, Israel.
Israeli Police Make Arrests in Fire
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It stood at the summit of the great platform, a quadrilateral mass of unburnt brick, which from a remote antiquity had supported the residence of the old Susian kings.
The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 5. (of 7): Persia The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.
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I could recover myself into any composure for thinking, the maid came in with her mistress's service, and a small silver orringer of what she called a bridal posset, and desired me to eat it as I went to bed, which consequently I did, and felt immediately a heat, a fire run like a hue-and-cry through every part of my body; I burnt, I glowed, and wanted even little of wishing for any man.
Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749)
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Sunburnt and tall and kind of lank, but good-lookin '.
The Way of the Wind
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Key colours are brown and grey with splashes of burnt orange.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tabernacle; and first, the holy place, which the priests daily entered and which is called in verse 16 'the tent of meeting,' and next, the altar of burnt offering in the outer court, are in like manner sprinkled seven times with the blood, to 'hallow' them 'from the uncleanness of the children of Israel' (verse 19).
Expositions of Holy Scripture
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A heavily burnt in sky will blend better with the foreground as the flash will nudge those highlights along.
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A hot coal fell out of the fire and burnt the carpet.
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Housing estates have been burnt down, schools ransacked, shops looted.
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We were given a piece of fish with coal oil and burnt lettuce juice.
Times, Sunday Times
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A burnt child dreads the fire.
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From across the landing, through the open door, came the urinous scent of burnt toast smelled at a distance.
THE INNOCENT
