Example Sentences

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On Monday night, timed for PEN America’s annual gala, Atwood and Penguin Random House announced that a one-off, unburnable edition of “The Handmaid’s Tale” would be auctioned through Sotheby’s New York.

From Seattle Times • May 23, 2022

He actually said they stand to be rendered unburnable.

From Slate • Jan. 24, 2022

Jet is extracted at the same time as amber, and in Kuji, miners had been disposing of it as unburnable coal.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 12, 2021

Google, eBay, and Amazon came under criticism from conservationist groups in 2013 over ads for elephant ivory products, many of which were listed under code terms like "white gold" and "unburnable bone."

From The Verge • Apr. 30, 2015

Burn all combustible garbage in your camp fire; place tin cans and unburnable residue in garbage cans.

From Glacier National Park [Montana] by Interior, United States Dept. of the