Sentence examples for burns like from inspiring English sources
The phrase "burns like" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used to make a simile, often to describe a sensation or feeling that is intense or painful, similar to the sensation of burning. Example: "The sunburn on my shoulders burns like fire, making it hard to wear a shirt."
In an essay published in March, in the journal Le Tigre, Patrick Marcolini, a professor of philosophy at Nice University, identifies it as a burning style, one that "burns like ice," in the words of Baudelaire; the recurring usage of the concept of the spectacle as it was elaborated by Guy Debord; and a beautiful and sober presentation, which contrasted with the radicality of the texts.
"It burns like crazy," Bell said.
The pathos burns like acid.
London has fallen like Troy; it burns like another Rome.
His coarse, strong voice burns like acetylene; he gives a performance of unforced power.
"It really speeds up now because the chatter on the Web — it just burns like crazy".
Foresters try to plan their intentional burns like lab technicians preparing for an experiment.
It consisted, instead, of nine portraits, alternately caustic and sympathetic but all keenly observed — primarily of American soldiers, but also of two Italian women — and eight "promenades": personal reflections of an anonymous, Burns-like G.I. wandering from one image and place in North Africa and Italy to another, just as Burns himself had done.
At its nucleus was a tall, thin man with long, slicked-back hair and a slightly sinister, Mr. Burns-like expression: he was Sardar Biglari, the chairman and C.E.O. of Biglari Holdings, which controls Steak 'n Shake and is the largest stakeholder in Cracker Barrel.
After a movie at the Burns -- like one of the John Sayles films that the theater is featuring this month -- Mr. Bernstein and Ms. King usually walk to a local restaurant, window shopping along the way.
When O'Connor writes that he spent 18 months in search of the "tangible explanation for Jeter's intangible grace" and "the passion behind his pinstripes," he is more than foreshadowing that he did not unearth Montgomery Burns-like evil within this "biracial golden child".
