Sentence examples for burning lumber from inspiring English sources

The resulting explosion, which narrowly missed wounding Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, rained down burning "lumber, grape, canister, and all kinds of shot over this point".

Enron, once a star, has lately looked more like a truck racing down a Texas highway with a load of burning lumber: no one knew where it was going or why.

Two uniformed soldiers stood guard at the entrance, warming themselves by burning scrap lumber in a tin can.

Additionally, nonoccupational exposures may result from the use of railroad ties in landscaping, burning of creosote-treated scrap lumber in fireplaces or woodstoves, and ingestion of contaminated groundwater (ATSDR 2004).

It is hard to argue with a report produced this week by GK Dragonomics, a Beijing-based research outfit, which concluded that "China will remain a highly coal-dependent economy for decades".Where China leads, India lumbers behind, also burning an awful lot of coal, and hungry for more electric power.

As Levie points out, software companies were traditionally seen as entities which addressed niche markets, then tried to lumber their way across the divide into larger markets — all the while, burning through mountains of cash like addled junkies thanks to high (unsustainable) sales cycles.

On Oct. 8, 1871, a giant forest fire engulfed the small lumber town of Peshtigo, Wis., and several other villages, killing an estimated 1,200 people and burning over a million acres.

Blob-headed figures, tornadoes, flaming comets, exploding pieces of lumber, a volcano made of hair, a woman having sex with an amorphous black monster, burning bodies, a gunshot victim slumped in a corner: these and others evoke a wildly volatile world in which innocence is constantly being tested by things primitive, perverse and evil.

Calories — burning!

* Bride burning.

"I just kept burning and burning".