Sentence examples for burnt itself from inspiring English sources

Deadly but unable to spread efficiently – and with Sars victims largely contained within hospitals – the virus burnt itself out in intensive care beds across the globe.

The row burnt itself out in a few days, but came to mind as I walked along a Mediterranean beach last week.

As Illan Rua Wall argues, the cathartic defeat of Fianna Fáil in February's election ensured that "indignation burnt itself out at the ballot box", with little public reflection, let alone mobilisation, on the possibility of confronting the new government's effortless adoption of austerity.

The fire burnt itself out late in the day, instead of being brought under control.

In the remote rural villages of central Africa, where Ebola first appeared in the 1970s, the sick were easy to quarantine and the virus burnt itself out.

The violent conflict in Northern Ireland ended because it had burnt itself out and achieved nothing.

Bizarre events occurred when the River Lea burned with an eerie blue flame, caused by a hit on a gin factory at Three Mills, and the Thames itself burnt fiercely when Tate & Lyle's Silvertown sugar refinery was hit.

These are often clever scenarios, such as "A Hot Breakfast" in the chapter on Thermodynamics (why can't we unjuice an orange?), or "Sunburn!" in the chapter on The Living Cell (how does our burnt skin replenish itself?).

Burnt lime has by itself a high melting point of 2,570° C (4,660° F) and is therefore solid at steelmaking temperatures, but when it is mixed with the other oxides, they all melt together at lower temperatures and thus form the slag.

Exposure to auto-emitting smoke has been a trigger in many and here in addition to the smoke itself, the odour of burnt fuel (usually diesel in public transport vehicles) adds to the malady.

If the transmission fluid is a discolored brown or smells like burnt toast, the fluid has boiled itself into uselessness and can no longer dissipate the heat the transmission generates.