The phrase "a burnt offering" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in religious or historical contexts, particularly when discussing sacrifices made in ancient rituals.
Example: "In ancient times, a burnt offering was often made to appease the gods and seek their favor."
Alternatives: "a sacrificial offering" or "a fire offering".
I took pictures of the whole thing, and it looks like a burnt offering.
And although the rack of lamb was a disaster of cool tough meat, hacked into ribs and dumped onto a plate, the duck was infinitely worse, dry and roasted for so long that its "crispy" skin had blackened to ash, like a burnt offering.
But you have to wonder if the near certainty of ending up as a burnt offering won't scare off candidates this time around.
Still, Ewing expected to be made a scapegoat by Kansas politicians, "a burnt offering to satisfy the just and terrible passion of the people".
"This was by no means a holocaust," he said during a recent visit to New York, noting that the literal meaning of the word refers to a burnt offering to a god.
That morning, before the killing, Barbara Sheehan had read an essay by her son on Yahweh's test of Abraham, ordering him to slay his beloved son Isaac, and make a burnt offering of him.
Not only is the price staggering (about £6.5m per game, with the occasional tribute of a fragrant burnt offering thrown in), but also it shined a light on BT's ambitions to compete more agressively against BSkyB.
Take a ram as a burnt-offering.
"Broken Sculpture With Reclining Sock," another McCarthy work, features a sock resting, like a slightly burnt offering, on a T-shape of smooth blue-tinted plaster held up by four hairpin iron legs.
"A Minimal Future?" — its title taken from the March , 1967 issue of Arts Magazine — favors artists who are willing captives of minimalist logic, including several nearly forgotten painters who made a virtual burnt offering of their medium to the new god.
This should be a regular burnt offering to God.
