Example Sentences

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“We thought an unburnable copy of ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ could serve as a symbol,” he said.

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

About three o'clock in the morning, when the street was entirely deserted, he lugged his bundle—containing the unburnable things—down the stairs and across the street, and dropped it into the river.

From The Mystery of Murray Davenport A Story of New York at the Present Day by Stephens, Robert Neilson