Example sentences for: burnt

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

  • The technology could also add the smell of gunpowder to action films or burnt flesh to computer games.

  • My scientific interest in wine description grew out of watching people, mostly men, hold a glass of wine up to a candle, swish it around, sniff it, taste it, and utter some wonderfully poetic-sounding remark, such as, “The burnt fruity nose a bit overpowers the buttery lushness of the finish.”

  • After that, my aunt was a lot more careful what she said around me, like a burnt child that shuns the fire.

  • Parallel to the harbor, you’ll find on Gower Street the prettiest Victorian houses, painted burgundy, lemon, burnt sienna, dove grey, and white.

  • And it is no accident that the idea of revolution arose at a moment when the terrible fires of religious conflict had burnt out in Europe, and European thinkers had largely concluded that forcibly imposing possible Christian salvation on doctrinal enemies was not worth the enormous cost in blood and toil that two centuries of religious warfare had taken (the Thirty Years' War alone reduced the population of Germany by as much as 25 percent).


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