Sentence examples for burning off from inspiring English sources

ACROSS the hall teenagers are playing basketball, bouncing and scoring and burning off the energy that might otherwise burn streets.

Some tried burning off the sawgrass or other vegetation, only to learn that the peat continued to burn.

(While burning off calories, to boot).

I literally felt as if it were burning off.

Instead of burning off, the metal reacts with oxygen.

Fertility was enhanced by burning off any stalks or vines that remained from the previous harvest.

Everyone is hoarding cash, trimming costs and painfully burning off fat.

They report that people on the Atkins diet were burning off more calories.

A thick mist rose skyward from the trees, the moisture of night burning off.

Now the fog was burning off, and the day brightened but Sarkozy did not.

I just loved burning off the fire inside me - it's an impulse you can't help'.