Sentence examples for burning chunks from inspiring English sources

But firefighters were concerned, in part because the flames were spewing burning chunks of wood thousands of feet into the air, where they were blown as far as a mile and starting new fires.

After the 1956 Olympics, in which burning chunks of magnesium and aluminium scorched a runner in the final relay, the flame was replaced with much safer lightweight liquid fuels.

A1 Assessing Blame for Wildfires Conservative critics -- including the Republican governor of Montana -- said the Clinton administration did not move fast enough to ward off the wildfires burning large chunks of the West.

To understand how these laws work in the real world, think about burning a chunk of coal.

Residents described fireballs, flying chunks of burning debris and flames as high as the sky.

Chunks of burning wood rain down on the crowd, and parents brush embers from their children's hair as watching firemen chat and smoke cigarettes.

Two explosions destroyed the reactor, ejecting highly radioactive material into the atmosphere — including chunks of burning graphite, which started fires around the reactor.

More than half of the girls with a sub-type of ADHD characterized by inattention as well as hyperactivity or impulsivity had engaged in some form of self-harm, such as cutting, burning or pulling out chunks of their hair.

(Medieval trebuchets launched not only rocks, but also chunks of burning pitch and dead horse carcasses, a Middle Ages form of chemical warfare).

Last winter he was watching "The Barber of Seville" at the Met one night, and a chunk of burning cable dropped down from the fly gallery onto the roof of Dr. Bartolo's palazzo and sat there, smoldering.

Jimmy Kimmel's Fall hoax, in which a girl appeared to accidentally light herself on fire with a candle while "twerking," may have gotten more headlines, but Tori Locklear burning off a sizable chunk of her blonde locks with a curling iron scored over twice as many views, with 31.7 million to date.