How to Use unburned in a Sentence

unburned

adjective

• In the model, an unburned tree looks to the north, to the east, to the south, and the west.
  — Julia Brodsky, Forbes, 29 May 2021
• The team also found the DNA of three fire-loving fungi species in the soil, even in unburned areas.
  — Jake Buehler, Science | AAAS, 1 Nov. 2019
• The leaves can also be left unburned and used as potpourri that lasts for up to three months.
  — David Syrek, chicagotribune.com, 26 Feb. 2021
• Spring conditions are arriving, with the hills reborn in green in the unburned areas across the foothills to the east.
  — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Mar. 2021
• Two logs, one burned and one unburned, were found inside the Hustisford home.
  — Drew Dawson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 May 2022
• About one-third of the gasoline that goes into this sort of engine is spewed out, unburned, in an aerosol mixed with oil in the exhaust.
  — Ken Goe, OregonLive.com, 8 June 2018
• The heady aroma of unburned hydrocarbons and charred rubber is in the air.
  — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 22 June 2022
• In most places the rainfall was welcomed and did not cause any major flooding from burned or unburned hill slopes.
  — Lee MacDonald, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2018
• Neymar emerges unburned from a massive bonfire of money, like Khaleesi from the flames.
  — SI.com, 3 Aug. 2017
• The smoke ignited unburned fuel in the stack, causing visible flames to shoot out the stack.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 20 Nov. 2022
• And smoke is more than a pollutant; it’s unburned fuel.
  — Roy Berendson, Popular Mechanics, 28 Sep. 2018
• Release of unburned gas from a wellhead is called venting.
  — Ian Palmer, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022
• About 3% of the area that burned is unknown and 8% remained unburned or burned at very low intensity.
  — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 4 July 2022
• Some of the crew are dragging the unburned trunks into the green areas to deprive the fire of additional fuel.
  — Mark Jenkins, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
• Unburned fat then winds up deposited somewhere in a person's body, such as the belly or hips.
  — Dennis Thompson, chicagotribune.com, 28 July 2017
• Excavations in 2014 on the Swedish island of Öland revealed the bones of victims who were left unburied and unburned.
  — Byandrew Curry, science.org, 5 Jan. 2023
• The second study, conducted in the Greater Boston area, looked at the nonmethane components of unburned gas from stoves.
  — Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2022
• Yet each time firefighters put out a small blaze, that means unburned brush and timber is left to fuel future fires.
  — Joseph Serna, latimes.com, 14 June 2019
• The worst burns were on his hands and forearms, and — as with other burn patients — skin from unburned parts of his body had to be shaved off and grafted to replace skin that had burned away.
  — Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2021
• The fire started on Jan. 23 at around 8 p.m. on the fourth floor, destroying the roof of the building but leaving the museum’s collection unburned.
  — Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2020
• Some trainees drip too much fuel, sloshing unburned liquids around and some are having trouble getting the thatch to catch.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 12 Feb. 2023
• In other cases, unlit flares allow all the methane that passes through them to vent, unburned, into the air.
  — Phil McKenna, ExpressNews.com, 23 Apr. 2020
• The blaze continued to burn remnants of the 2009 Tennant Fire and an island of unburned fuels that is not expected to threaten the control lines.
  — Matthias Gafni, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 July 2021
• In Napa County cows munched, seemingly contented, in the few spots of unburned grass in their grazing fields.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2017
• There’s a lot of vicarious pleasure to be had in this charming book, and none of the drawbacks of a real day at the beach: The characters apply no sunscreen yet go unburned!
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 27 May 2022
• That gave firefighters a chance to create firebreaks and do other work in an effort to prevent the blaze from reaching unburned areas.
  — New York Times, 22 July 2021
• That amount, Braun testified, would be appropriate on the unburned section of the Hardie Summer parcel.
  — Maxine Bernstein, oregonlive.com, 28 June 2019
• The researchers expected some leakage of unburned gas when the stoves are in use, especially the pulses of gas produced in the few seconds between the time a burner is turned on and the gas ignites.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 20 Oct. 2022
• Because unburned methane causes more than 80 times the warming as an equivalent amount of CO2 over two decades, these leaks nullify much of the fuel’s improvement over coal.
  — Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 13 May 2024
• But pipeline leaks are a potential menace — in part because hydrogen is a powerful heat-trapping gas in its unburned form, and in part because the fuel is highly flammable.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024