Sentence examples for burned-over from inspiring English sources

Of course, that would involve hauling even bigger equipment down some slippery, burned-over slope.

For decades, federal agency responses to burned-over lands have involved a rush to re-establish vegetative cover.

Western New York was known as the "burned-over district" then — a crucible for Mormonism, Christian Science, Seventh-Day Adventism, and countless cults and utopian colonies.

That resonates with voters like Aleta Trabue because she is so disgusted with the tone of what passes for political discourse in this burned-over season of politics.

The "burned-over district" -- so-called because 19th-century dissident religious and social movements swept over the area like wildfires -- has nurtured iconoclasts of every ilk.

It lay in a stretch of western New York known as the "burned-over district" because religious fires had passed through so many times.

Still, the flames burned over their location.

Afaf was burned over 70percentt of her body.

Some studios were burned over the summer by pushing too hard to "eventize" movies.

But that coal has been exported to Britain and Germany to be burned over here.

The Trust estimates they burned over 28m calories and covered 275,000 miles.