Example sentences for: burnt

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

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

  • Both have the same style, using bright colors like yellow, burnt orange, and royal blue, or a blue and off-white scheme, in designs that include flowers, birds and geometric shapes.

  • Autumn brings the finest hues to the landscape, when the leaves turn shades of apricot and copper, the bracken changes to a burnt umber, and the hillsides glow in the low sunlight, reflecting perfectly in the glassy stillness of the lakes.

  • The painterly impact of the “burnt sienna” glows from the arcaded Gothic Palazzo Pubblico opposite, with its splendid 102-m- (335-ft-) high Torre del Mangia (climb to its first tier at 88 m [288 ft] for a magnificent view of the city and countryside beyond).

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


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