Example Sentences

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The Dixie fire had been burning for seven days when, on July 20, 2021, an investigator first came across Maynard, who was about 200 yards from what would later be called the Cascade fire.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2024

The warrant said it appeared that either a headboard or a cabinet in a bedroom had been burning.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 18, 2023

Some of the hills around the city blazed in the predawn light after wildfires that had been burning since Tuesday jumped Lake Okanagan and spread into parts of Kelowna.

From Reuters • Aug. 18, 2023

Greenville, CA — Pines and firs parched by a three-year drought had been burning for days on a ridge 1,000 feet above my remote mountain town.

From Salon • Jun. 6, 2023

The fire inside the Atashkadeh had been burning for fifteen hundred years.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram