Sentence examples for burn someone from inspiring English sources
It is correct, but it needs a verb, such as "burn someone out"
Example: They burned him out by making him work long hours without proper compensation.
It was one thing to burn your own draft card, quite another to burn someone else's.
"Each time you burn someone, it makes it that much harder the next time," said Armand Musey, an analyst at Banc of America Securities, referring to the credit line default.
"In the old days, you stepped out, you had to think about what you were wearing, you had to get out at the right time, you had to stand in a corner, you didn't fucking tread on anybody's foot, you didn't make eye contact with the wrong geezer, you definitely didn't burn someone with your fag.
So we might as well shovel and ship their coal because otherwise they'll just burn someone else's.
"If they burn someone's press secretary, it's not going to be the end of the world," Pareene told The Huffington Post.
Do not swing the loop around to cool it or you will burn someone around you.
When Biedermann finally realises that the men in his house really are arsonists, he is quite happy for them to go off and burn down someone else's house, not realising that he too will become one of the victims.
(Obama has said, publicly, that he "does not intend" to use it in that way. I'm sure that the Los Angeles Police Department didn't wake up last week with the "intention" to burn down someone's ski cabin -- but when push came to shove, that's what they did).
And when will someone burn down all those clubs that attract people who still insist on wearing winklepickers?
Consumer advocates estimate that there have been at least 33 deaths and 84 serious injuries in recent years from stoves that suddenly tip over and burn or kill someone underneath.
