Sentence examples for has tried burning from inspiring English sources

She has tried burning white candles for purity.

Maybe Redding should have tried burning a guitar.

He was only 33, but he had concluded there was no good explanation for how he'd turned out, unless he was "the child of the Devil.... I've tried burning him out and cutting him out and he don't take no notice".

Mark Proegler, a BP spokesman, told The Associated Press that the company had tried to avoid burning turtles by using crews in boats to look for them before oil was set afire.

By then, the two police officers had tried to enter the burning apartment but had turned back because of heavy smoke and flames in a doorway at the top of an inside stairway leading to the Joneses' apartment.

You've tried scrubbing, bleaching, even burning the dirt away — but nothing seems to work!

To paraphrase lyrics from Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start The Fire" (Joel 1989), we have tried to stop the burning (and succeeded), but the pathogens keep on flowing.

In the eyes of the mill owners, the crowds converging on Manchester were dangerous associates of the frame breakers, the followers of "Ned Ludd" who had tried to wreck their businesses by burning down their mills.

Because much of the side-stream smoke comes from the burning paper wrapper, cigarette makers have tried a variety of techniques to reduce the paper's burn rate.

I was working on the last night of the decennium horribile dictu, so I had tried to think of who else might also be burning the midnight oil instead of clinking the midnight bubbly.

Having read that Prince Charles had installed grass-burning boilers at Highgrove, Lovelock had tried one in his house.