Use burnt in a sentence
Sentences starting with burnt
- Burnt bitumen was used by Assyrians for cement in building. [10]
Sentences ending with burnt
- That meant she would be burnt. [5]
- She had played with fire, from the very spirit of adventure in her, but she had not been burnt. [11]
- The monks had torn the desecrated block from the niche in the Serapeum, hauled it through the courts on to the steps, and were now taking it to the arena where it was to be burnt. [10]
Short sentences using burnt
- My brain seemed burnt up. [5]
- The taper had burnt out. [10]
Sentences containing burnt two or more times
- Now that my books are burnt I have lived in vain; the wretches have burnt me in burning my works. [10]
More example sentences with the word burnt in them
- A few score years ago, sick people were made to swallow burnt toads and powdered earthworms and the expressed juice of wood-lice. [6]
- As for me--each word burnt a hole in me where it struck. [5]
- They burnt it with my other possessions, when they plundered my house, and denounced me and my belongings for sorcery. [10]
- I do not wish to be burnt, as they did with my father--no, I should wish to be finely embalmed, and my mummy to be placed with my mother's. [10]
- How many tapers were burnt for him, how many masses said! [10]
- She knew the way without a guide to the spring from which Paulus had brought her water at their first meeting, and she now slipped away, and went down to it with a pretty little pitcher of burnt clay in her hand. [10]
- Was there no way of lighting up in her the sacred fire which burnt in him? [10]
- A cheerful fire was blazing on the hearth, the lamp burnt brightly, my clock received me with its old familiar welcome; everything was quiet, warm and cheering, and in happy contrast to the gloom and darkness I had quitted. [12]
- Sure enough, it was a Pi Ute Injun I used to know in Tulare County; mighty good fellow--I remembered being at his funeral, which consisted of him being burnt and the other Injuns gauming their faces with his ashes and howling like wildcats. [5]
- To-morrow I mean to dictate a chapter which will get my heirs and assigns burnt alive if they venture to print it this side of 2006 A.D.--which I judge they won't. [5]
- I mention these things because they were burnt into my mind at the time. [11]
- She is in the service of the Princess Bent-Anat, and sleeps in her anteroom, and she must not be burnt with her mistress. [10]
- Under his system the sailors had good coffee for breakfast, instead of a horrible mixture made of burnt biscuits cooked in foul water. [11]
- He then surrounded the limb with the live coals or charcoal, which was replenished until the leg was literally burnt off. [5]
- She now entered the large hall which was dimly lighted by the lamps behind the sculptor's screen, and by several tapers, now burnt down low. [10]
- The happenings and the impressions of that time are burnt into my memory, and the study of them entertains me as much now as they themselves distressed me then. [5]
- The snuff of the burnt candle of enjoyment he calls regret, repentance. [11]
- The same day that the body was found it was burnt on a pile of precious wood. [10]
- Each bore a staff decorated with roses, lilies, and green branches, and many carried censers in the form of a golden arm with incense in the hollow of the hand, to be burnt before the king. [10]
- She took the scarf off gently, soaked it in oil and splashed it with flour, and laid it quickly back on the burnt flesh. [11]
- De Good Book say de burnt chile shun de fire. [5]
- Once only Bent-Anat said: "The hovel is burnt down. [10]
- The old gentleman received him very kindly and so did the old lady, whose previous good opinion of him was greatly enhanced by his wiping his boots on the mat until the soles of his feet burnt again. [12]
- These he would read to me, though he never volunteered to do so, and every now and then he burnt the whole and began to fill the drawer again. [6]
- Neithotep, however, listened quietly, and when Nebenchari had finished, answered him thus: If thou, foolish son, hast betrayed thy country for the sake of thy burnt manuscripts, the deed has been neither just nor wise. [10]
- She's got a perfectly immense reputation--draws like a dog-fight--and it all came from getting burnt out in hotels. [5]
- Then I looked over my burnt dress and was horrified to see how large the holes were, and it struck me that I might turn it, because when you turn a thing the spots, you know, do not show. [10]
- And all burnt out, of course. [5]
- Close to the one that was burnt down, there was a tumbled-down hovel, which her father soon put together again; he is a bearded soldier, who is as much like her as a hedgehog is like a white dove. [10]
- With every jar of wine a new torrent of merriment went up through the opening in the roof, by which the scent of the flowers and of the perfume burnt on beautiful little altars found an exit into the open air. [10]
- By much dragging of chestnuts from the fire for others to eat, his claws are burnt off to the gristle, and he is thrown aside as unfit for further use. [7]
- All the registers of burial in the church were destroyed by the great fire of 1666, which burnt down the edifice from floor to roof, leaving only the walls and tower standing. [4]
- And thou, son of a burnt father, shalt find Nahoum! [11]
- Prob'ly they burnt matches and found his tracks. [5]
- To the young man, after the burnt city, this was paradise. [9]
- Next time I make a contract before writing the book, may I suffer the righteous penalty and be burnt, like the injudicious believer. [5]
- Are you not like the man in the fable, who deemed that he was burnt whereas he had thrust another into the fire? [10]
- She had deemed life good, and behold, it was not good; she had thought her dayspring was on high, and happiness had burnt into darkness like quick-consuming flax. [11]
- And when at last he spoke, his words burnt deep in my memory, so that even now I can repeat them. [9]
- The whites landed, killed some Indians, burnt forty houses, pillaged the village, and went on up the river and came to anchor in front of Matchcot, the Emperor's chief town. [4]
- In this room it was almost dark; only two tiny lamps were burning before the icons and there was a pleasant scent of flowers and burnt pastilles. [2]
- The name burnt into my brain. [11]
- I knocked holes in the roofs per usual, burnt everything that wasn't wood, let in the light o' heaven, and splashed about limewash and perchloride. [11]
- There was a hot, sluggish wind blowing from the southwest, which drove the sand across the lake into the streets; the fine grit stung: and burnt the face of the wanderer who hurried on with half-closed eyes and tightly-shut lips. [10]
- One morning against his will he was irritable with her, and she said something that burnt like caustic. [11]
- When Cullen wrote his Materia Medica, he had seriously to assail the practice of giving burnt toad, which was still countenanced by at least one medical authority of note. [3]
- She listened to him in deep alarm, but she could satisfy him on this point; everything she or her companion had worn had been burnt in the bath-room furnace. [10]
- The good fellow has never forgotten the handsome dowry you gave my Baner when he married her, and in three days he came and told me he had seen your beautiful chest and all the rolls it contained burnt to ashes. [10]
- That night at Harnley had burnt a thought into her mind which she did not like. [11]
- Because if he'd had one she'd a burnt him out herself! [5]
- Once, when she had burnt her hand in cooking supper for him, his arm made a trial of her girth, and he kissed her. [11]
- She insisted on going back to the palace, so, as she would fly to the fire like a gnat, and I would not have her risk being burnt, I tied her up fast. [10]
- Petammon stole it from my burnt papers. [10]
- Not until he found it empty would he retire, and then he first fastened a bouquet of flowers he had brought to a statue of Eros in burnt clay, which stood there. [10]
- The man set fire to the calaboose with those very matches, and burnt himself up. [5]
- Evil tidings fly fast, however; while the men were talking together, the dragoman rode up to him and told him that his home was burnt to the ground and half Memphis still in flames. [10]
- We will fly far --ah, your eye brightens, your heart leaps to mine--I feel it now, I--" "Oh, have done, have done," she passionately broke in; "I would rather die, be torn upon the rack, burnt at the stake, than put my hand in yours! [11]
- The marble work, especially, made a great impression on them, as nothing of the kind was to be found in Babylon, Susa or Ecbatane, where burnt brick and cedar-wood supply the place of the polished marble. [10]
- Once Gabriel came down from the hills, and Lajeunesse burnt him with a hot iron, for cutting his bellows in the night, to make himself a bed inside them. [11]
- There was a defect in the furnace, the place had caught fire, and some of the wooden flooring had been burnt before the aged Monseigneur Lourde discovered it. [11]
- He was a deep man and a strong; and it was through him the conscription descended upon Mahommed Selim-- "son of a burnt father," as he called him--who had gone shooting jackals in the desert with his daughter, and had lost him his breakfast. [11]
- There, almost every day for six months, I have practiced with my rifle till the barrel burnt my hands. [13]
- He had changed color from time to time and on hearing that the papers which had cost him so many nights of hard work had been burnt, his fists clenched and he shivered as if seized by biting frost. [10]
- Date's de Hebrew chil'en dat went frough de fiah; dey was burnt considable--ob coase dey was; but dey didn't know nuffin 'bout it--heal right up agin; if dey'd ben gals dey'd missed dey long haah, (hair,) maybe, but dey wouldn't felt de burn. [5]
- It was illuminated by thousands of lamps; a hundred fires burnt on its Pylons, its battlemented walls and roofs. [10]
- Nothing was burnt but the letters from Amasis to thy father, and a worthless old chest. [10]
- This one's been burnt out thirty-five times. [5]
- Well, she got burnt out in a hotel and lost $30,000 worth of diamonds. [5]
- Well, she got burnt out again and lost all her diamonds, and it gave her such a lift that she went starring. [5]
- If he had burnt her to ashes, one might have carried her in a bag, but as she is, five hundred cannot to a navigable place above the falls. [4]
- Caesar burnt his bridges behind him, but Sherman burns his rails. [9]
- My good old blameless mother strove to earn bread by nursing the sick; one of these died, the doctors knew not how, so my mother was burnt for a witch, whilst my babes looked on and wailed. [5]
- Alva burnt the Bible-readers, De la Marck hangs the priests. [10]
- You resolve to believe that a widow never burnt herself willingly, but went to her death because she was afraid to defy public opinion. [5]
- Thin, hard, burnt, bearded, with the dust and sage thick on him, with his leather wrist-bands shining from use, and his boots worn through on the stirrup side, he looked the rider of riders. [13]
- We don't look at sickness as we used to, and try to poison it with everything that is offensive, burnt toads and earth-worms and viper-broth, and worse things than these. [6]
- It was just as if the fierce heat of the sun burnt up the sound as it left her lips. [10]
- A little after, as he stood contemplating the motionless figure, a doubt came into his face; evidently he felt a twinge of conscience--a misgiving--and he said with a sigh: "Well, p'raps I ought to burnt him, maybe. [5]
- Phanes came up and took his band, saying: "The Egyptians have struck you, my friend, but me they have maltreated and abused--thieves have broken into your granaries, but my hearth and home have been burnt to ashes by incendiaries. [10]
- The candle spluttered and burnt low in the socket. [11]
- The forms of Amasis, who had laughed at and exiled him,--of Psamtik and the priests,--who had burnt his works,--stood near him; they were heavily fettered and besought mercy at his hands. [10]
- The late October air bit the cheek, though now and then a warm, pungent current passed across the courtyard--the breath from the people's burnt corn. [11]
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