Sentence examples for water burning from inspiring English sources

A ship stands dead in the water, burning.

The New Yorker, April 7 , 1986P. 27 A ship stands dead in the water, burning.

By Jonathan Schell The New Yorker, April 7 , 1986P. 27 A ship stands dead in the water, burning.

Adherents pay reverence to a tablet of Okhwang every morning and evening by offering fresh water, burning incense, lighting a candle, and bowing four times.

The sun hoists itself up and gets busy, laying a sparkling rug across the water, burning the beads of dew off the reeds, baking the tops of our mothers' heads".

She also offered a word of warning: "There are people who will take advantage of others by using holy water, burning sage and spreading salt around the perimeter of the house.

But you should never experience eye watering, burning or coughing at the salon.

People with hoses directed water at burning cars, creating pools of water tinged with blood.

David Silva, a firefighter with the San Bernardino Fire Department, pointed to the green brush behind him that hadn't yet burned as members of his crew sprayed water onto burning embers.

"All we could see was dead people, people crying for food and for water, and burning vehicles everywhere".

Coal mining squanders water, and burning the black stuff emits poisonous mercury plus lung-choking acids and soot.