The phrase "a cross burned" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing historical events, particularly those related to hate groups or acts of intimidation.
Example: "The community was shocked to discover that a cross burned on the hill was a symbol of hate and division."
Alternatives: "a cross set ablaze" or "a burning cross".
The mere suggestion is disturbing to me, a Jew from North Carolina who, as a boy, had a cross burned on his lawn.
--Cokie Roberts had a cross burned on her yard!
I remembering hearing that the first Ethiopian family there had a cross burned in their lawn a couple years earlier.
She said she was moved that many voters empathized with her personal story — growing up in Ohio, the daughter of two civil rights activists who once had a cross burned on their lawn.
A province where an interracial couple had a cross burned on their lawn and where African Nova Scotians face an unemployment rate of 14.5percentt and are less likely to have a university or college education when compared to the population as a whole.
On Nov. 6, a cross burns on the lawn of a biracial couple in Apolacon Township, Pa.
It's not exactly a subtle moment the song is performed by a mother to her children while a cross burns on their lawn but nuance was never Cop Rock's thing.
At different moments in Jez Butterworth's play Jerusalem, the noted Shakespearean Mark Rylance sports a pickelhaube (the spiked emblem of Great War-era German militarism), a knit cap with satanic-looking triangular points, and a searing cross burned into his back by vengeful hooligans.
Wickwire had brought all sorts of people to Hopkins since he arrived in 1953 from Hugh Hefner to Cesar Chavez to the gay civil rights leader Bayard Rustin, which got a Ku Klux Klan cross burned on campus.
In all that time, none of those being investigated caught onto the hustle and not a single cross burned in their city.
It will be a sad day when the truck comes to take the small herds to their deaths, especially sad because each animal will await death tormented by a three-inch cross burned into her right cheek, as decreed by the mighty Department of Agriculture, to pre-vent her being bought by another milk producer.
