incinerate

Example Sentences

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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

One man was caught using a blowtorch to incinerate debris in West Hills as the Kenneth fire raged above him, police said.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2025

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

But that sorrow and that rage might incinerate her, same as that storm yesterday, with its lightning bolts speeding through this flat land, looking for the one thing still standing.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti