Words similar to burns

Example sentences for: burns

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

It is the charge that is ignited, not the “explosion”; also, black powder does not explode: it burns.
"Self-loathing burns as many calories as running."
When that flame burns out, as I think it soon will, the flame in the cemetery will not matter.
A raw leg of mutton in the foreground of one of the paintings matches the couple's tired flesh while a stove burns brightly--Stanley's repressed desire, perhaps--in the background.
In other cases, in which noninfectious insults are responsible for systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS; e.g. trauma, burns, haemorrhages, hypothermia, pancreatitis and surgery) or in comatose patients, the diagnosis of sepsis remains difficult.