Sentence examples for may have burned from inspiring English sources

"This forest may have burned," says Dr. Hutto, smiling, "but that doesn't mean it's dead.

Britain and France may have burned the summer palace, but the US has become the symbol of imperialism.

They cross great distances flying at forty or fifty miles an hour and when they get here may have burned off half their body weight.

But in a family considered private, those secrets may have burned along with those who held them close, leaving the rest of us to wonder in the dark.

It's estimated that an average of 16,000 of Yosemite's 747,000 acres may have burned under natural conditions in the park each year.

This is a little bit on the order of: the house may have burned down, but at least the alarm worked.

Many specialists believe unrecorded rural outbreaks – both before and after the virus was identified in 1976 – may have burnt themselves out as people adapted naturally after centuries of living in hostile environments.

John Gosden's filly will not be able to give ground away so carelessly in this company, but on the other hand she might prove the best of those arriving at the death when others may have burnt themselves out.

Analysts forecast that revenues will be just $1.6bn£1bnbn), a 42% drop compared with $2.73bn for the same period a year ago, and that losses could be as much as $235m ,equivalent to 44 cents per share – and also that the company may have burnt through $800m this quarter.

It was thought likely that she would have survived had that been the end of the incident, but the ropes holding the chair to the body of the balloon may have burnt through, or the impact may have thrown her forwards, with the result that Blanchard, trapped in the netting of the balloon, pitched over the side of the roof into the street below.

It is possible, says Kilpeläinen, that Sibelius may not have burned them all.