burn

The smell of fields being burned in preparation for the next crop cycle filtered in and I’d lie cocooned in itchy blankets.

Only later did she learn they were pieces of burned protective netting from the neighboring building already engulfed in flames.

With the fire largely extinguished on Friday, Fung asked the police whether officers had entered the flat in question, which was in the first of seven high-rises that burned.

In one, a child smeared 14 different products on her face before developing a burning rash.

And why is the cigar still smoldering, burning a little hole in the newspaper?