Sentence examples for almost burning from inspiring English sources

I took a sip of the newly poured tea, too hot, almost burning my tongue, then reached for another samosa.

She was staring across at the blank window opposite so hard she was almost burning a hole in the glass.

The leg still pained [him] intensely – the nerves were almost burning, he said – and he would make his way from one chair to another, clutching his calf, and the armrests.

From forgetting her bike for a cycling holiday to absentmindedly almost burning down our boat on at least two occasions, she could be one of the most frustrating people in the world.

Cooking these on a griddle or barbecue is ideal, as you get a great mix of textures and flavours; the fatty pork crisping in some areas and almost burning in others.

"The fire had been slow burning and had gone undetected for some time which had resulted in it almost burning completely through the floor joist and burning the underneath of the floor boards," he said.

Another day it might have an almost burning-type smell that hurts your nose," said Karen Priest, a North Carolina homeowner who woke up one morning and discovered that 7,300 hogs and two lagoons had moved in next door.

Young Shiite men, who have taken to the streets almost daily, burning tires as a show of defiance, say that they are not offered equal opportunities in education and employment and that the government is changing the demographic composition of the population by naturalizing as many Sunnis as possible.

2. When a star begins to run out of nuclear fuel, the star turns off, almost like burning out.

Almost immaterial in the way of paperanimals folded fireside — haloed and almost-burning, a branch of sun lit starlings eclipsed by their lengthening shadows.

The fires that caused what may have been the most pernicious man-made smog in history have been burning almost every summer in Indonesia for the past 15 years.