How to Use burn through in a Sentence

burn through

phrasal verb
Definition of burn throughnext
  • Behind her, the fire swirls and burns through the brush.
    — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2024
  • From across the web: RFK Jr. keeps burning through cash.
    — Leigh Ann Caldwell, Washington Post, 20 June 2024
  • The blaze burned through wood pallets being stored there.
    — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Our startup has burned through $10 million of cash, much of it our own.
    — Andy Dunn, Fortune, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Elsewhere, the aliens' acid-like blood burns through fingers and body parts, and there's a brief but bloody birthing scene near the end.
    — Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Others burned through savings to fund their cause or died in prison.
    — Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The Smokehouse Creek Fire burned through over 1 million acres of Texas land in just a couple of days.
    — Mary Gilbert, CNN, 13 Mar. 2024
  • But the sun will burn through the clouds earlier in the day this week in the run-up to Memorial Day and a long home stand for the Padres.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2024
  • The big picture: Adding to his struggles, Kennedy is burning through cash.
    — Erin Doherty, Axios, 4 Aug. 2024
  • The solar rays can burn through the lens and cause serious eye injury.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The solar rays can burn through the lens and cause serious eye injury.
    — Sara Moniuszko, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Altogether, the fires have burned through 2,168 acres in Maui.
    — Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 19 Aug. 2023
  • The fire is burning through and threatening groves of Joshua trees – the branching, spiky plants of the Mojave Desert that can live more than 150 years.
    — Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 2 Aug. 2023
  • And for years the two states burned through hundreds of millions of dollars to lure businesses to one side of the border or the other in the pursuit of jobs.
    — Will Daniel, Fortune, 15 June 2024
  • But in the American West, wildfires have burned through childhood.
    — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Oct. 2023
  • By midday Thursday, the Mina fire had burned through 98 acres of timber and was 50% contained.
    — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2024
  • First, the flames came storming across the vistas of the Texas Panhandle, burning through the grassy plains and scrub land of the region’s cattle ranches.
    — Sean Murphy, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Or like…there might be a hole burning through an invisible layer in the sky?
    — Daniel Rodgers, Glamour, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The city's rainwater catchment basins have been so dry that one, the El Cristo basin, caught fire on Tuesday, burning through 75 acres.
    — USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Great rock stars create other rock stars, and burn through boundaries and roadblocks.
    — Evan Minsker, Pitchfork, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The Kremlin’s war machine has been burning through its stocks and is scrambling for supplies with the war now in its second year.
    — Time, 8 Aug. 2023
  • That blaze burned through the nearby botanical garden, which housed some of the world’s rarest tree species, charring nearly 10 acres.
    — Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2024
  • With more than a million L.E.D. light bulbs, the garden expected to burn through a hundred and fifty gallons of diesel fuel each night.
    — Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Based on Elon Musk’s idea, the startup burned through more than $450 million without coming close to a commercial project.
    — Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 15 Feb. 2024
  • McCready, as per usual, was worth the price of admission on his own merit, burning through some of the hottest guitar leads one will find in all of rock.
    — Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 14 May 2024
  • Cruise is also burning through cash, having gone through $1.4 billion this year.
    — Bydana Hull, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2023
  • The star, now burning through some of the heavier elements in its core, emits powerful outward winds.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 July 2024
  • But Saturday’s weather would give firefighters a chance to slow down a blaze that has burned through terrain at 8 square miles an hour or more in the past two days.
    — Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 27 July 2024
  • People visit the shrine to light candles, leave notes and make wishes, believing that their prayers might be answered if their candle burns through the night.
    — Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 10 Oct. 2024
  • In the intervening years Hired helped tech companies recruit employees, burned through ~$130m in funding, and gave away copious amounts of swag.
    — Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 20 Sep. 2024

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