How to Use incinerate in a Sentence

incinerate

verb

• The waste is incinerated in a large furnace.
• There, flames jumped the road and incinerated a line of cars fleeing as the fire destroyed their homes.
  — J. Weston Phippen, The Atlantic, 18 June 2017
• Yurovsky and his men then made a botched attempt to incinerate the bodies of Maria and Alexey.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 1 July 2018
• And large, sturdy houses have risen in the area called the Wedge, where bungalows had been incinerated in the fire set off by the storm.
  — Julie Lasky, New York Times, 24 May 2017
• Once the inner lining is filled, the bags are sent to be incinerated.
  — Dana Lee, Indianapolis Star, 22 Oct. 2017
• Rather than incinerate the birds or contribute to the city’s landfill, the birds will make good meals for needy Denverites.
  — Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 4 July 2019
• But the book doesn’t incinerate when the fire hits the cover — instead, the flames graze the edges, floating away with no wreckage left behind.
  — Jaclyn Peiser, Washington Post, 24 May 2022
• The fire incinerated a nearby house and the blast cracked walls and ceilings in Ms. Goblick’s home.
  — Michael Corkery, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2019
• The rest gets incinerated, is buried in landfills or piles up as litter on land and in the water.
  — Lisa Song, ProPublica, 19 Sep. 2023
• The camp’s crematory worked around the clock to incinerate the hundreds who died every day, the court was told.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Dec. 2022
• The camp’s crematory worked round the clock to incinerate the hundreds who died every day, the court was told.
  — Christopher F. Schuetze, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2022
• At the same time, the extreme heat of the burner incinerates the smoke particles in the air from the roaster, leaving clean exhaust.
  — Jeff Csatari, Popular Mechanics, 5 Dec. 2019
• Television images showed horses and sheep incinerated on a farm that had stood in the path of the fire.
  — NBC News, 28 June 2019
• Due to a lack of interest, Fields said the birds were incinerated.
  — Thomas Novelly, The Courier-Journal, 3 Sep. 2017
• So many prisoners were killed that the crematoria on the edge of the camp couldn’t incinerate all the bodies.
  — Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2020
• The Bronze Fury attacks with flame and teeth, incinerating and eating all who aren’t quick enough to escape him.
  — Lauren Morgan, EW.com, 29 July 2024
• In 2020, the wildfires that incinerated nearly half of the island took the Southern Ocean Lodge, too.
  — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 10 July 2024
• But on a stormy evening five days later, a fire broke out on the top story, incinerating a classroom.
  — Perry Stein, Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2019
• Most of it is in low-Earth orbit, and pieces of space junk can lose altitude over time and incinerate in the atmosphere.
  — Alice Gorman, CNN, 8 May 2021
• Visitors can see the ovens used to incinerate the remains of those slaughtered.
  — Marc Santora, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2020
• The top floor was incinerated and water ruined the rest.
  — New York Times, 4 Mar. 2018
• Its main building had been incinerated by airstrikes, while a film archive dating back to the 1940s, one of the largest in Africa, had been blown open by gunfire.
  — Declan Walsh Ivor Prickett, New York Times, 5 June 2024
• The hiss of incinerating pages sounded like the final gasps of hundreds of dying souls.
  — Ramin Bahrani, New York Times, 10 May 2018
• The firestorm raced across Butte County, north of Sacramento, and incinerated the town of Paradise.
  — Thomas Frank, Scientific American, 10 Oct. 2019
• The biggest fire, the Kincade Fire, has incinerated parts of the wine country in Sonoma County since last week.
  — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 1 Nov. 2019
• One kill involves Corey using a blowtorch to incinerate the face off of a marching band bully.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 19 Oct. 2022
• The carnage of the Tokyo fire-raid did not cause LeMay to stop the strategy, and his forces continued to incinerate Japanese cities in the six months that followed.
  — Paul Kennedy, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2021
• The known death toll as of Wednesday morning was 106 dead, but search teams had only been through a portion of the area incinerated in the Lahaina wildfire.
  — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2023
• In 2018, the deadliest wildfire in state history, the Camp Fire, incinerated much of the town.
  — Emma Tucker, CNN, 28 July 2024
• But much of the clothing will not ultimately appear in the video; it will instead be incinerated in an RV fire that will happen outside the L.A. video set a week from now.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 6 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024