Sentence examples for fail to burn from inspiring English sources

A wave of napalm-fueled fire splashed across the mouths of a system of caves or trenchworks may fail to burn the occupants but can remove so much oxygen from the air that the defenders suffocate.

Practical measures include the reduction of black carbon emitted in car exhausts - especially from older cars that fail to burn their fuel completely.

Against the backdrop of Avicenna's account of God, it is not even conceivable that the cotton fail to burn when its contact with fire is unimpeded and it is dry.

Staying indoors most of the time without any physical activity will contribute to your child's weight gain since they fail to burn calories.

Officials ruthlessly burned the tents of young people whose ideals they failed to burn ― they live on.

Another member of the Rat Pack, Sammy Davis Jr., was conscripted to handle the vocals, but sadly, Gordy's song, "Hello, Detroit," failed to burn up the charts.

When Notre Dame failed to burn more time off the clock and was forced to punt, the Wolverines had the ball on their 30-yard line with 1 25 left.

The authorities first consigned the martyr to a brothel, failed to burn her at the stake and finally stabbed her in the throat.

Or if it failed to burn for at least seven minutes, then the two astronauts would either crash back on to the Moon or be stranded in low orbit around it, beyond the reach of Collins in his mothership, Columbia.

It was not until 1904, 10 years after their first meeting, that she concluded "he has squeezed me like a lemon and then thrown me away" -- and, Sheehy tells us, tried and failed to burn down his house.

I reached a large park with manicured lawns, a rose garden, gushing fountains, and shady tea gardens, and made my way to a rectangular stone-lined pool crammed with fat gray carp, indicating the spot where Nimrod failed to burn up Abraham.