Example sentences for: burnings

How can you use “burnings” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • President Clinton, who never did get his draft story straight, said in a radio address last year that a wave of black church burnings brought back "vivid and painful memories of black churches being burned in my own state when I was a child."

  • The rioting of Kurds across Europe Tuesday, with burnings and hostage-takings at Greek and Kenyan diplomatic missions, alarmed European newspapers and generated countless pages of comment and analysis.

  • When Arkansas historians pointed out there were no black church burnings in the state then or perhaps ever, a Clinton spokesperson said he meant "black community buildings" (though there is no record of that either).


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