Sentence examples for get burned up from inspiring English sources

"That's when a bullpen can get burned up".

"It's not very far from the second floor, and it's better to break an arm or a leg than get burned up".

Ford takes a practical approach to his materials: the notebooks that went towards the making of Frank are stored in his freezer "in case the house burns down, then they won't get burned up".

He got trapped against a creek and said he thought he "was going to get burned up" by the 8-to-10-foot-high flames.

In a foreshadowing of Risch's comment about the New Orleans victims, the author Marc Reisner, whose 1986 book Cadillac Desert is the finest account of these Western politics, quotes one of the Teton dam's earlier opponents about the culture of this part of Idaho: they "get burned up when they hear about someone buying a bottle of mouthwash with food stamps.

The latter is clearly true (and Preminger depicts her unslaked hungers in aggressively antic ways); as for being love-starved, it's worth recalling that those who are in love often have stores of it that they can sustain themselves with by burning, for quite a while, like fat, and "Such Good Friends" is the story comic, bitter, and moving of what happens when, eventually, they get burned up.

"It could have been a small chunk of asteroid, from the asteroid belt, that has been floating around the Solar System for billions of years and, just last night, it happened to get burnt up in our atmosphere.

Interviewees voiced their scepticism - "… I really don't understand that with one candle how one can get burnt up to 90% to 100%" (nurse) - but sympathised with women who had suffered burns: "The patients say they are scared of the in-laws, the husbands, what treatment they will get later on when they go home … That's why they never admit" (nurse).

I got burned up, got caught in a fire, got skin grafts.

"I'm also aware that she got burned up in a fire, so there's not a lot of likelihood that she will come back".

The original costumes got burned up in a fire that broke out on Labor Day, and the local costumers didn't have replacements on hand.