burning

Example Sentences

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As expected, the body quickly shifted from burning glucose to burning fat within the first two to three days of fasting.

From Science Daily • May 17, 2026

Sobel likened the sign's removal to "book burning" under Nazi Germany, but without the spectacle.

From Barron's • May 17, 2026

His mistake was to try to destroy a man whose greatest nemesis was himself, and that singular, burning focus of Mozart’s earned him immortality regardless of what his haters threw at him.

From Salon • May 16, 2026

But Cerebras is a small, unprofitable company that is also burning cash as it builds up a cloud-computing service using its own chips.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Then he glared over at Jonah, his eyes burning.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix