Sentence examples for am burning from inspiring English sources

When, near the close of the play, Hedda burns the manuscript that Thea and Lövborg assembled together — "I am burning your child," she famously remarks — Blanchett slams the door of the oven and whips around, her profile spotlit.

Then by flame-light I see: I am burning his med-school easel.

"It means I am burning off a lot of energy," Tutera said.

I think of it now because when I light the woodstove, I realize that I am burning time.

I am burning his left-behind craft, he who was the first to turn our family, naked, into art.

"If my efforts are painful," he says toward the end of the book, in a wonderful distillation of the difficulties of attentiveness, "if I am anguished, it is because sometimes I get closer, I am burning: in a certain photograph I believe I perceive the lineaments of truth".

"The floors were burning.

Another village was burning.

She is burning out.

Something somewhere is burning.

It was burning down.