Example Sentences

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The machine incinerates the feathers at extremely high temperatures, measuring the emitted mercury.

From Reuters • Aug. 5, 2023

Then a specialist smelting firm retrieves around 90% of the metals in the phone - a process which incinerates the plastic parts.

From BBC • Nov. 29, 2021

Even now, he said, he has the sort of high metabolism that incinerates calories.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2021

The earth is currently hurtling through a mass of dust and debris from the 3200 Phaethon asteroid, producing a meteor shower visible to people on both hemispheres as the detritus incinerates in the atmosphere.

From Slate • Dec. 13, 2018

Springs of ancient wrath spray and fling its repressed fury , heeding not whom or what it incinerates when gravity reclaims lava?s spurts .

From NATURAE by Dom