Definition: 1. Pain that feels hot as if it were on fire. 2. A browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun. 3. An injury cause by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation. 4. Destroy by fire. 5. Shine intensely, as if with heat.
Use 'burn' in a sentence:
1. Ford vowed that he would sooner burn his factory to the ground than build a single vehicle for war purposes.
2. Burn it in the earth's atmosphere.
3. How did you burn your feet?
4. Aerobic exercise gets the heart pumping and helps you to burn fat.
5. Build up your tan slowly and don't allow your skin to burn.
6. A man was crawling away from the burning wreckage.
7. People had to burn these trees to keep warm during harsh winters.
8. The clothing on his back got burnt away in the fire.
9. My eyes burn from staring at the needle.
10. A hot coal fell out of the fire and burnt the carpet.
11. Fires were burning all over the city.
12. Lights were burning upstairs, but no one answered the door.
13. He could hear the crackling of burning trees.
14. The fire was allowed to burn unchecked.
15. Two children were rescued from the burning car.
16. The power stations burn coal from the Ruhr region.
17. The fire had burnt out before the fire engines arrived.
18. A light was still burning in the bedroom.
19. In your place, I'll burn some other Marionette.
20. The station would burn up on reentry into the Earth's atmosphere.
21. As we get older, our bodies become less efficient at burning up calories.
22. Certain petrol tanks in trucks can rupture and burn in a collision.
23. A small fire was burning to take the chill off the room.
24. I am fat because I burn calories slowly.
25. There was a smell of burning in the air.
26. You should burn your own boats!
27. He was a high-earning broker with money to burn.
28. He's always had a burning ambition to start his own business.
29. So you did it just to burn me?
30. The car was burning down the road.
31. Look out, or you'll burn yourself.
32. Otherwise, they revert to graphite or burn.
33. Incineration plants should be built to burn household waste.
34. If he doesn't stop working so hard, he'll burn himself out.
35. Coal is used to burn.
36. Sometimes big fire can burn forests.
37. Turn the heat down or it'll burn.
38. Volunteers formed a human chain to rescue precious items from the burning house.
39. Firefighters needed breathing apparatus to enter the burning house.
40. This workout helps you to burn off fat and tone muscles.
41. This is a slow-burn romance.
42. This death had been a slow burn.
43. I put a lighted match to the letter and watched it burn.
44. The way he treats me really burns me up.
45. Think carefully before you resign ─ you don't want to burn your bridges.
46. The smell of burning rubber filled the air.
47. The plane circled the airport to burn up excess fuel.
48. He was burning to go climbing again.
49. The pilot jumped from the burning plane.
50. Two children were burnt to death in the fire.
51. His greatest fear is of being burnt alive.
52. Our eyes were burning from the chemicals in the air.
53. Muscle cells need lots of fuel and therefore burn lots of calories.
