Sentence examples for burnt over from inspiring English sources
d This is a pre-monsoon activity in which grass, tree branches, leaves, and cattle dung are burnt over around one-fifth part of the farm to prepare the land for sowing of paddy.
The area burnt over is about fifty acres.
Following a wildfire in south-eastern Australia that burnt over 1 million hectares of forested land in early 2003, two former research catchments (136 and 244 ha), in the East Kiewa valley, Victoria, were re-instrumented.
Don't overlook the positivie and negative impacts of biofuels used for household energy: According to the GACC, cooking with biomass fuels such as firewood and crop waste, burnt over open fires and in poorly ventilated houses, contributes to a global disease burden of almost 4m deaths per year.
The ruins, which lay within the boundaries of the hacienda, had recently been burnt over for the cultivation of maize, so they were able to observe and chart on their map the ruined waIl running from opposite the Adivino to the Vieja, now known to be a section of the possibly defensive muralIa-a feature that was to escape further attention for well over a century.
Slides are first dipped in methanol and burnt over a blue flame to remove machine oil and dust.
(The area was known as the "burnt-over district" because of this).
The upstate region where Smith was living was known as the "burnt-over district," because of the religious fevers that continually swept through it.
Repelled by the ash-covered ground, and undeterred by burnt-over vegetation, water is expected to sweep down the canyons toward the Rio Grande, causing large-scale erosion.
The city was too cosmopolitan to be seized by any one movement for long they flared brightest in the Burnt-Over District, around Rochester and Buffalo.
The Mormon faith had originated there, along with Seventh-Day Adventism and Jehovah's Witnesses, and so many preachers of all kinds had passed through that it came to be known as the burnt-over districtthat is, exhausted like a forest after a wildfire.
