How to Use burn away in a Sentence

burn away

verb
  • The surface of the shield begins to burn away, in a process called ablation.
    — Julian Dossett, Space.com, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Heat is then delivered through the tube to burn away the unhealthy inner lining.
    — Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 13 June 2026
  • Heat is then delivered through the tube to burn away the unhealthy inner lining.
    — Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 11 June 2026
  • Standard heat shields are mostly designed to erode and burn away during re-entry.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Time to clear the trainers’ room, hand the staff some sage, a lighter and burn away whatever is haunting this team.
    — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 24 Dec. 2025
  • Aries fire burns away the residue of fear and doubt that may have lingered after the Virgo solar eclipse.
    — Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The fire was burning away from Calistoga.
    — Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 23 Aug. 2025
  • It was reduced to its steel frame after the fire burned away its outer layers and internal mechanisms.
    — Kelly McGreal, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The paper burns away when fired in the kiln, leaving a structure that slumps and distorts under the effects of heat and gravity.
    — Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 12 May 2026
  • The heat shield is made of Avcoat, an ablative material that burns away bit by bit, which carries heat away from the capsule.
    — Stephen J. Beard, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2026
  • As for fly ash, once the carbon is burned away, the residual ash contains tiny mineral particles that are often captured in smokestacks.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 24 May 2026
  • After three months of waiting and talking about their survival prospects, this was an opportunity to burn away that nervous energy, on and off the field.
    — Beren Cross, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The latter happened when the two brothers were battling a wildfire that had grown from efforts to burn away vegetation on some marshland at the farm; some in Plainfield questioned whether Ed had something to do with it.
    — Chris Foran, jsonline.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Over eons, these increasingly dense elements burn away within the core as lighter elements incinerate across successive, encompassing layers.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 20 Aug. 2025
  • By the end of that show, the anxiety and isolation that freight life in the closet had burned away, leaving a happy, hopeful ending in place of familiar narrative disaster; love is found, secrecy is banished, and all is well.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The Milwaukee Fire Department didn't immediately respond to questions about the extent of damage at the building, but photos of the fire show sections of the roof completely burned away.
    — Mike De Sisti, jsonline.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Alongside long-standing fire deficits, which resulted from the practice of quickly extinguishing fires rather than allowing low-level fires to burn away forest debris, these factors have escalated the potential for large fires in the West.
    — Mukesh Kumar, The Conversation, 17 June 2026
  • Instead of actual Styrofoam, Artemis missions use the material Avcoat, which slowly burns away, transferring heat away from the Orion crew capsule.
    — Margaret Landis, The Conversation, 18 June 2026
  • Engineers concluded that a different entry trajectory, one with an initial dip into the upper atmosphere followed by a shorter-duration climb back out, would allow the outer char layer to erode and burn away more evenly without creating damaging cracks and pressure buildups.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2026

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