How to Use incinerate in a Sentence

incinerate

verb
Definition of incineratenext
Synonyms for incineratenext
  • These fires can burn forests that have been standing for some time or reburn forests recently incinerated.
    — Kristen Pope, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2018
  • They can be made into biomass fuels and incinerated, although some pollutants such as metals gather in the ash, which must be disposed of.
    — Erica Gies, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2018
  • There are no aliens in this story, which follows the life of a young man named Chen who watches as both of his parents are incinerated by a phenomenon known as ball lightning.
    — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 15 Sep. 2018
  • On another wall are peaceful landscape paintings made of unusually chunky acrylic — incinerated canvas ash and fragments are mixed into it.
    — Kevin Fagan, SFChronicle.com, 9 July 2018
  • The flames killed two residents of Journey’s End, incinerated 121 homes and melted the new gas and electric system.
    — Lizzie Johnson, SFChronicle.com, 13 July 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • This was more like a landfill fire, a big heap of garbage that simmered and flared and burned, with every day having a new aroma as the flames found something new to incinerate.
    — Star Tribune, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Italians are frazzled as a summer of incinerating heat waves lingers and fear mounts over the return of hailstones the size of handballs.
    — Jason Horowitz, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
  • The comic absurdity of taking delight in an art work that won’t be seen and that may even be incinerated was not lost on the artist.
    — Nadia Beard, The New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The ensuing fires killed more than 100 residents and incinerated most of Lahaina, the main town on the island’s west side.
    — Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
  • In comparison, the pastries baked by the Mint kitchen chefs have to be incinerated if they're not sold within five days of being baked.
    — Lauren Saria, azcentral, 4 June 2019
  • But the majority of the time, they are either incinerated or dumped in a landfill.
    — Lilit Marcus, CNN, 26 Feb. 2023
  • History was ruptured in the 1950s; how could life go on after the revelation of World War II death camps and the creation of a bomb that could incinerate a city’s population with a single blast?
    — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2024

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