incinerate

There’s “torch,” at the high end of high intensity, when flames rise into the forest crown and incinerate everything.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026

The government will invest $3.5 billion in a project to build 34 waste-to-energy sites within two years that would incinerate garbage to produce electricity, he said.

From Barron's ● Mar. 10, 2026

It describes the behavior of some speculators in volatile stocks or cryptocurrencies who incinerate more of their savings after failing to cash in on big paper gains.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026

Some incinerate the remains with medical waste like tumors or kidney stones, while others opt for unmarked mass burials at cemeteries, and sometimes parents can find out a general area if they wish to visit.

From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2024

Although he had never built a kiln before, he believed his design would generate temperatures extreme enough to incinerate anything within.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

The machine incinerates the feathers at extremely high temperatures, measuring the emitted mercury.

From Reuters ● Aug. 5, 2023

Then a specialist smelting firm retrieves around 90% of the metals in the phone - a process which incinerates the plastic parts.

From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2021

The earth is currently hurtling through a mass of dust and debris from the 3200 Phaethon asteroid, producing a meteor shower visible to people on both hemispheres as the detritus incinerates in the atmosphere.

From Slate ● Dec. 13, 2018

This is the game you burn, even though it may also be the game that incinerates the team’s playoff chances.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 20, 2016

Springs of ancient wrath spray and fling its repressed fury , heeding not whom or what it incinerates when gravity reclaims lava?s spurts .

From NATURAE by Dom

A couple who put their car in for an MOT have discovered it was incinerated when the garage was destroyed by a huge fire.

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026

Other residents lost more than just their cars, as their businesses were incinerated down to the cement, including a motorcycle store in the southern La Vena neighborhood.

From Barron's ● Feb. 24, 2026

The options trader known as “Captain Condor” and his acolytes experienced a wipeout last week that incinerated tens of millions of dollars and cost some investors their life savings.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 31, 2025

And how do Axel, 19; Gustav, 16, and Liv, 14, like their new two-story house, erected on the lot where their one-story house was incinerated?

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2025

In the daytime their crisp, incinerated corpses littered the floor and windowsills, and until Kochu Maria swept them away in her plastic dustpan, the air smelled of Something Burning.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

"By reusing plastic waste that is already in Hawaii, we can reduce the environmental and economic impacts of transporting waste plastics from the islands, incinerating it or dumping it in Hawaii's overflowing landfills."

From Science Daily ● Jun. 28, 2026

After all, the “Toy Story” franchise has had pure villains before — one of them almost got away with incinerating the toys for good!

From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026

Japan does relatively well on generating electricity by incinerating trash, too.

From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026

Politicians will be tempted to let inflation whittle them down instead, incinerating the value of very long-term bonds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

Then an incinerating white light filled the world, accompanied by an earsplitting wall of sound.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline