Sentence examples for burning hung from inspiring English sources

The unmistakable smell of burning hung in the air for weeks.

The acrid smell of diesel and burning coal hung in the air.

A musty, burning odor hangs in the air.

The stench of burning tyres hangs over streets where police and protesters have pelted each other with stones.

Tinniswood juices up his account with information gleaned from other historians and memoirists of the period, and in the process of these digressions, the reader learns some helpful details of 17th-century life: how to deter a soldier from burning haystacks (hang him from a roadside gibbet) or how to treat someone with depression (feed her the spiced brains of a virgin ram).

So many burning questions hang in the air -- will the U.S. make it out of the first round despite being in a group with Germany, Portugal and Ghana?

There, in an apparent attempt to shut down the canal, protesters hung burning tyres from the docks and cut the tethers to boats tied to the mainland.

The air is full of the fumes of a burning car, smoke hangs above the houses, and a squad of police defend themselves in a front garden.

No smoking is permitted in this room & the scent of burning incense hangs in the air.

Smoke from burning vehicles and tires hung over the city late Saturday.

On this innocent-sounding piece of arithmetic hangs a burning economic debate in France and Germany.In both countries, where unemployment (4.3m in Germany, 3.3m in France) is seen as a national emergency, cutting working hours is becoming a popular solution.