incinerate

Example Sentences

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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

If anyone in crypto billed themselves as the kind of actors who wouldn’t incinerate, misallocate, or steal customers’ money, it was Bankman-Fried and FTX.

From Slate • Oct. 3, 2023

He was inclined to sterilize its contents in an oven and then incinerate it.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston