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How to use the word burning in a Sentence?

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There are so many people in our community … who were there on August 11 who were terrorized by torch-wielding terrorists, there’s a law, a burning objects law, that says they can be prosecuted but our prosecutor’s not doing that.

James Hingeley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I started smelling it inside the apartment, with all the door and windows closed, it was like a burning in the nose.

Tim Day

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The burning furnace campaign will not cool down in the foreseeable future.

Florian Feyerabend

Found on CNN
1 year ago

True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men. To employ these rare minds on such work is like running a steam engine by burning diamonds.

C.S. Peirce

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1 year ago

WITH THE EMBERS STILL BURNING: The scientific community has done a pronounced amount of hand-wringing about its involvement in the atomic bomb’s creation, and a disproportionately absent amount of the soul-searching with respects to its creation of the science of eugenics. The 450,000 deaths due to the bomb are relatively small in the shadow of the many millions dead as a result of National Socialism’s eugenic campaign. The casualties of The Holocaust are the casualties of the science of eugenics, which so many scientists had actively campaigned for leading up to World War II. Yet, the scientific community has confronted its complicity with collective silence and sometimes outright censorship.

A.E. Samaan

added by AlvaroSiman
1 year ago

When we left, I had a rash on my skin on my arm, and my eyes were burning for a few days after that.

Amanda Greathouse

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re on the side of the whales, all we do is care about the whales, we’re accepting the fact that humans have messed up and climate change is because of us. This is one of the ways we can stop burning fossil fuels; we’re looking at the big picture.

Paul Eidman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The pictures from Lützerath are of course painful, as we have always fought against the continued burning of coal, we know the importance of Lützerath as a symbol in the climate movement. However, this should not obscure what has been achieved.

Martin Lechtape

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That allows us for the first time to put a number on what Exxon knew, namely that fossil fuel burning was going to hit the planet by 0.2 degrees Celsius per decade.

Geoffrey Supran

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The fire's burning in all directions, on all flanks, because of the footprint of the fire, the fire was rapidly progressing towards the federal land and the decision was made to go unified with our federal cooperators so that we can collectively make the decisions that are right for both the public and the citizens in the area.

Southern California

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's probably the best $ 10 million Schumer could have spent on my campaign. national Republicans are now saddled with propping up a badly damaged candidate who is burning through cash and proving that he can not be trusted to fight for Colorado values.

The Senate Majority PAC

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Washburn fire is a relatively small, very slow moving surface fire, burning mainly at low intensity in mild to moderate fire weather, including in dense forests with no forest management history and an abundance of live and dead trees, this underscores what John Muir Project and hundreds of scientists have been saying for years: it’s not primarily about the density of live or dead trees, it’s about the weather and climate, and climate change.

Scott Applewhite

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Accidents are really difficult to predict, kids get excited ; they forget that they're holding a burning hot object in their hand, and then that's when the object touches either their own body or somebody else's.

Sarah Clark

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Dwight Eisenhower said that Dwight Eisenhower and the alliance leaders had shared ‘ the same passionate hope of serving free humanity and of making it secure. ’ We still share that hope. We still keep that flame burning.

Lloyd Austin

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

People were abandoned to die. They were dying, burning inside of that place, you can imagine with no water, no food, with natural physical needs. It's hard to picture what happened in that box, dark box. I invite you, respect people. People are people. Treat others as you would like them to treat you.

Gustavo García-Siller

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For days, [Sonmez] raged with the fire of a thousand burning bras, sending a gazillion tweets calling for more to be done against Weigel, mocking her bosses attacking colleagues and letting the world know how much the Washington Post sucked. And this endless bickering and infighting continued online in public view until the bell rang and they all went to seventh period.

Washington Post

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

When you limit carbohydrates, the body gets really good at burning its own body fat because it doesn’t have a lot of sugar to burn for fuel.

Jeff Volek

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Students had me in tears. We're talking about crops dying in the fields, and then fires burning the crops, and then a flood washing the fields away, the rage that I felt then led me to go,' right there's an election coming up. We can't allow this government another three years to allow our children's future to burn.'.

Monique Ryan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He said,' honey everything is burning around us, I've got to get out of here,'.

Mary Smith

Found on CNN
2 years ago

California Tribes advise Cal Fire on traditional ecological knowledge for increasing the use of cultural burning and we are working to incorporate that knowledge into our own practices, including when, where and how prescribed burns are conducted, our relationship to California's Tribal community continues to evolve and we look forward to working collaboratively with Tribes to increase and expand the use of cultural burning.

Len Nielson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Democrats are doubling down on the extreme. Their policy is crashing and burning.

Ted Cruz

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There's a lot of discussion going on right now about heat pumps specifically and about other things that we can do to assist Europe to minimize the impact of the loss of Russian gas and oil, not all these plans have been carved in stone at this point. I think heat pumps are a very real alternative to the burning of fuel that takes place today.

John Kerry

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It is impossible to get out of the hospital. They shoot hard, we sit in the basement. Cars have not been able to drive to the hospital for two days. High-rise buildings around us are burning. ... The Russians have rushed 400 people from neighboring buildings to our hospital. We can't leave.

Pavlo Kyrylenko

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It is impossible to get out of the hospital. They shoot hard, we sit in the basement. Cars have not been able to drive to the hospital for two days. High-rise buildings around us are burning... the Russians have rushed 400 people from neighboring buildings to our hospital. We can't leave.

Pavlo Kyrylenko

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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