Sentence examples for burnt himself from inspiring English sources

The practice was unknown among clerics until two years ago, when one monk burnt himself to death in Sichuan province's Aba county, the predominantly Tibetan area in which most of the deaths have taken place.

It was last used in 1865 and its drunk inhabitant burnt himself to death trying to keep warm.

"One of them dropped one and burnt himself!

He burnt himself out in the two-fold incandescence of his dazzling career and visionary intuitions".

Richards's wife, Dorothea, described Eliot, on a visit, as "very gaunt & grim — as if he had burnt himself out.

In trying to mix it with the titan, he so burnt himself out he could barely hold an everyday sort of rival for second.

Enjoy giant pigs, fire-breathing octopuses, shark cars, David Best's annual Temple, and, of course, the Man-to-be-burnt himself, below.  .

David Morrell, author of the action novel "Burnt Sienna" (Warner Books), described himself as a former literature professor who had training in "hostage negotiation, executive protection, antiterrorist driving".

Allen describes himself as "confused and burnt out" when he got out of film school in 1985.

He'd eat it himself, and wash it down with burnt coffee from the bottom of the pot.

In the upcoming film "Burnt," Cooper portrays a chef who must redeem himself after tanking his career with drugs and a serious attitude problem.