incinerate

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

“Ideally we don’t want to incinerate them because it has to be done very, very slowly. But if have to, we will,” said Bob Cappadona, who leads the company’s environmental services division.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 19, 2023

Would he suck out my soul and incinerate me?

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

The machine incinerates the feathers at extremely high temperatures, measuring the emitted mercury.

From Reuters ● Aug. 5, 2023

Then a specialist smelting firm retrieves around 90% of the metals in the phone - a process which incinerates the plastic parts.

From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2021

Even now, he said, he has the sort of high metabolism that incinerates calories.

From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2021

The earth is currently hurtling through a mass of dust and debris from the 3200 Phaethon asteroid, producing a meteor shower visible to people on both hemispheres as the detritus incinerates in the atmosphere.

From Slate ● Dec. 13, 2018

Springs of ancient wrath spray and fling its repressed fury , heeding not whom or what it incinerates when gravity reclaims lava?s spurts .

From NATURAE by Dom

Thomas said a large wildfire on Mynydd Llantysilio near Llangollen, Denbighshire, in 2018 incinerated about 10cm of peat in some areas.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

Elsewhere in France, a fire in the Fontainebleau forest near Paris incinerated a tenth of the UNESCO-listed site in mid-July, after several other wildfires in the country.

From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026

For example, leveraged funds attract savers with quick short-term gains but have incinerated billions of dollars through gradual value decay tied to volatility.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026

A macabre fireworks show unfolds each day along I-15 west of Las Vegas, as birds fly into concentrated beams of sunlight and are instantly incinerated, leaving wisps of white smoke against the blue desert sky.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2026

On their right, an exasperated winged woman screamed into her phone and then incinerated it in her fist.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

"By reusing plastic waste that is already in Hawaii, we can reduce the environmental and economic impacts of transporting waste plastics from the islands, incinerating it or dumping it in Hawaii's overflowing landfills."

From Science Daily ● Jun. 28, 2026

After all, the “Toy Story” franchise has had pure villains before — one of them almost got away with incinerating the toys for good!

From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026

Japan does relatively well on generating electricity by incinerating trash, too.

From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026

On Aug. 24, 1814, invading Redcoats torched the still-unfinished Capitol building, incinerating the library’s 3,000 books and most of its government records.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025

She fought for breath, as if that stare was incinerating all the oxygen in the room, as if she would be consumed along with it.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby