burn off
Example Sentences
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Venezuela’s oil fields are heavily emitting in part because they contain large quantities of gas that must be burned off, or flared, because the facilities don’t exist to bring it to market.
“You want to melt your sneakers and possibly burn off your feet stepping on the wrong pile of ash?”
From Literature
To burn off my energy, my parents had enrolled me in dance classes at age 4.
As the morning marine layer burned off it revealed miles of dreamy California coastline, with sand cliffs tumbling to the shore.
Scott told the passengers that the plane had a mechanical problem requiring it to circle and burn off fuel.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
