Example Sentences

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This summer, we rescued a panini press from our apartment building’s free table — one of those liminal spaces where abandoned houseplants and half-burned candles go to live out their second lives.

From Salon • Dec. 20, 2025

Most of what she discovered were half-burned pages from books that had flown out of burning houses.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2025

The dead trees, still standing, would decompose more slowly, reducing nutrient pulses—at the cost of making some islets look like sand ashtrays filled with giant half-burned match sticks.

From Science Magazine • Aug. 27, 2020

Belisarius, with difficulty and not without danger and great exertion, made his way over ground covered by ruins and half-burned buildings, and ascended to the stadium.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2019

If he admitted how weak he was, that his whole life depended on a half-burned stick...

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan