Sentence examples for close to burning from inspiring English sources

For many dedicated readers, the idea of abandoning paper books might just feel uncomfortably close to burning them.

Soon a utility that serves southern Ohio, with its overloaded lines close to burning up, sealed itself off, creating in very real terms an electrical barrier between the southern part of the state and the northern.

At Amáli, a Mediterranean restaurant in Manhattan that opened last fall in the outer orbit of Bloomingdale's, the workhorse vegetable is treated rudely, like meat, roasted gutsily close to burning so that the tufts are frilled with black and the crispy tips fracture on the tongue.

In August 1930, while vacationing in Europe, he was informed that a wildfire had come close to burning the Castle before finally consuming a few trees.

I came really close to burning some important bridges that way, and had to work a long time to overcome it.

Asked whether she ever came close to burning out — particularly during the "Cinderella" run, when she was taking part in writing sessions before and sometimes after performances — she shook her head.

The near-complete combustion of nano-aluminium close to the burning surface of the propellant provides heat feedback that controls the burning rate.

The addresses that 911 callers gave dispatchers, although wrong, were close to the burning buildings, so firefighters spotted the smoke and were able to find the fires immediately, he said.

Both sides need to stop fiddling while Europe figuratively comes closer and closer to truly burning.

The driver of a back-up foam tender drove in closer to the burning aircraft and discharged his foam effectively, but the fire had already gained hold by the time this happened.

Great effort has been made to measure velocity and temperature in the flame regions close to the burning surface (primary reaction zone and nonluminous zone).