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How to use the word Burner in a Sentence?

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[ The team ] started realizing that they were smashing projects that they had always put on the back burner.

Gary Conroy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I have no idea what a burner phone is. To the best of my knowledge, I have never even heard the term.

Kurt Olsen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

So if you turn another burner on, use a bigger burner, or turn it higher, all these things will create more NOx.

Researcher Eric Lebel

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Bayou Classic makes them in all sizes, and even has some with the burner. This recipe calls for cooking it outside on a propane burner. You can cook it inside on your stovetop, but you better be ok with coughing up spice for a few days.

Isaac Toups

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If you plan to start spending on something that's been on the back burner while you were stuck at home, that money will need to come from somewhere else in your budget.

Vadim Verdyan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We need to wait two years, three years to have a house built because of the lack of craftsmen, we are being put on the back burner.

Yasushi Niitsuma

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I never thought it would be as controversial as it turned out, although I remember saying when we were writing it that some religious nut case may take potshots at us, at the time, religion seemed to be on the back burner and it felt like kicking a dead donkey. It has come back with a vengeance and we'd think twice about making it now.

Terry Jones

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We're going to Poland and then we may be going to Denmark -- not for this reason at all. But we're looking at it( purchasing Greenland). It's not number one on the burner.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The concept came up and ...strategically it's interesting, it is not No.1 on the burner; I can tell you that.

Donald Trump

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

But do I log on regularly to check my account? Absolutely not - and I'm much more interested in Social Security than most people, but that seems deeply normal to me - people are busy and once they've logged on once, they don't bother to do it again. It goes on the back burner.

Kathleen Romig

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

They don't want to do anything that's going to lead to a loss, so it will be a step-by-step process, something they want to keep on the front burner.

Phil Mattingly

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I feel like this issue now goes on the back burner for him, but he needs to know, 'no, we aren't going to shut up about this in New Hampshire.'.

Erin Canterbury

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Every phone has an Electronic Serial Number – from that you can trace back to the manufacturer and the retail point of sale, even for a ‘burner’.

Raymond Foster

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It takes between five and eight years to grow a chair. Small lamps; between two and three years. And the dining tables; ten to fifteen. It's a long-burner. But it's something similar to setting up a vineyard, it takes a few years to get going but we'll have a crop every year.

Gavin Munro

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Since entrepreneurs prioritize business they tend to put romance second, which puts potential mates off and leaves love on the back burner.

Patti Stanger

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Geopolitical risk like this has been on the back burner for a while because we've been focussing on global oversupply, this news has not made the oversupply go away. The upside potential is limited unless something escalates. We need to see how this unfolds over the next couple of days.

Ole Hansen

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

They're looking for someone with singed eyebrows and maybe burned hands. Because the burner often gets burned.

Peter Odom

Found on CNN
9 years ago

He hit a worm burner

Rex Hudler

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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