How to Use burn through in a Sentence

burn through

phrasal verb

• In the second matchup, Atlanta's offense seemed less than enthusiastic mustering only three runs as the team burned through six pitchers.
  — Ross Terrell, Axios, 30 Sep. 2024
• Incendiary weapons in war Thermite can easily burn through almost anything, including metal, so there’s little protection from it.
  — Brad Lendon, CNN, 7 Sep. 2024
• 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.
  — Sara Moniuszko, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2024
• The solar rays can burn through the lens and cause serious eye injury.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 5 Feb. 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

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024