Sentence examples for be burnt by from inspiring English sources

"Rabbi Yehudah said: They issued a proclamation in Sodom saying: 'Everyone who strengthens the hand of the poor and the needy with a loaf of bread shall be burnt by fire!'" (Pirke DeRabbi Eliezer 25).

Boiling oil is dangerous, so use tongs and be very, very careful, because it hurts really, bad to be burnt by that stuff.

If there are no new nuclear power stations built, then some of the MOX pellets could be burnt by modifying the Sizewell B nuclear reactor in Suffolk.

By selling off these filthy coal assets, they will no longer be on Sweden's books but the mines will be expanded and the brown coal will be burnt by someone else, imperilling humanity.

In a portfolio of 100 units that are far enough apart not to be burnt by the same fire, each unit might require only 90 cents; in one of 1,000 risks, 70 cents, and so on.

In its last report the Paris based International Energy Agency (IEA) claimed that to have a decent chance of avoiding catastrophic climate change only half of our existing proven reserves of oil and gas can be burnt by 2050 - even assuming dramatic cuts in global coal use and the deployment of carbon capture technologies.

Have the fingers on his right hand been burnt by trying to play too hard and too fast?

Often Sunni houses are burnt by Shia militiamen and in one village Kurdish fighters had reportedly sprayed over the word "apostate" placed there by Isis and instead written "Kurdish home".

The natural gas is burnt by an existing gas-fired boiler and the heat from it is currently covering their heat demand.

Ezra then led the people to locate the only surviving copy of Torah as the remaining were burnt by Nebuchadnezzar.

Crops were flattened by the storm and in some instances had been "burnt" by the sheer force of the wind.