burned
Example Sentences
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She’d always liked tinkering with motorcycles and woodworking, and after years of teaching, she felt burned out.
“Not like this one. This light could be seen for thirty miles. Fires burned behind the eyes. See?”
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When he finally found it, he felt such a jolt of surprise that he cried out as if the paper had burned him.
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But he hadn’t really thought about how other people got burned by his fire, people like Toby Crawford.
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My insides burned from my nose and throat down to my lungs.
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