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Discover LudwigThe phrase "burn like" is grammatically correct and is commonly used in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that is burning with a strong intensity or passion. Example: The sun was setting, casting a fiery orange glow across the sky. The colors seemed to burn like a flame, illuminating everything in its path. In this example, the phrase "burn like" is used to emphasize the intense and vibrant colors of the sunset. It can also be used to describe emotions or sensations, such as "Her anger burned like a fire within her" or "The hot sauce burned like a thousand suns in my mouth."
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There has to be a burn, like a shark going after blood.
But now, she said, she wants to see Israel's leaders — she named the foreign minister and president — "burn like my children burned".
We learned about nettles and thistles, and how grass, which seemed such harmless stuff, could give you a sudden burn, like sandpaper.
The kiss makes the woman's right eye burn: "Like you put a seal on my forehead, I wrote to him later, and hot wax dripped down into my eye".
Whether sparked by lightning, a carelessly tossed cigarette or a prescribed burn like the one now flaring out of control, a catastrophic wildfire threatening Los Alamos National Laboratory was bound to happen.
Jaycee Lee Dugard, Elizabeth Smart, and now Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight are the latest names that burn like a sad strand of last year's Christmas lights across our consciousness.
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Friction burning – rubbing your skin until burn-like marks appear; usually, an object like a pencil eraser is rubbed harshly on the skin.
By the end of my second day, my arms were sore, my legs were sunburned, and I was covered in a rug-burn-like rash from the board's foam.
Tomato plants showing very typical burn-like necrotic symptoms ('torrado') on leaves and fruits were found in the Murcia area in Spain.
Skin-related AEs in the context of pirfenidone therapy can manifest as an erythematous (with/without edema) or as a phototoxic burn-like skin rash, occurring on sun-exposed body areas.
A new virus was isolated from tomato plants from the Murcia region in Spain which showed symptoms of 'torrado disease' very distinct necrotic, almost burn-like symptoms on leaves of infected plants.
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