How to Use burn-in in a Sentence

burn-in

1 of 2 noun
  • But the biggest surprised might be the inclusion of Alienware’s 3-year OLED burn-in warranty.
    — Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Importantly, the monitor is covered by Acer’s three-year warranty that protects against burn-in under normal circumstances.
    — Cameron Faulkner, The Verge, 1 July 2026
  • Each robot undergoes over 80 functional tests, including stress and burn-in exercises such as squats and jogging, to eliminate early failures.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 30 Apr. 2026
  • And the monitor also includes a Pulsating Heat Pipe and Dynamic Cooling System to reduce the temperature to prevent screen burn-in.
    — George Yang, PC Magazine, 23 May 2026
  • Pantone Validated ArtfulColor keeps these masterpieces looking realistic without screen burn-in.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Built to further boost brightness and stave off burn-in, WOLED uses a four-layer primary RGB light stack (blue-green-blue-red), up from the three-layer light stack (typically blue-yellow-blue) found in traditional WOLED.
    — Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 9 June 2026

burn in

2 of 2 verb
  • Wole’s back had burned in the sun.
    — David Wright Faladé, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
  • There was a fire burning in the stove.
    — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 23 Dec. 2025
  • Not even the money that burned in your room.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 20 June 2026
  • Around a third of his summer range burned in the fire.
    — Kailey Schuyler, FOXNews.com, 19 May 2026
  • After eating too many, my mouth burned in pain.
    — Alex Beggs, Bon Appetit Magazine, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Books were burning in front of my father’s house.
    — Literary Hub, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Our son’s bed started just burning in the shape of a heart.
    — Katie Mannion, PEOPLE, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Shots were fired, and a fire continues to burn in the large complex.
    — Npr Staff, NPR, 12 Mar. 2026
  • A lot of land hasn’t been burned in our living memory.
    — Andrew Montequin, jsonline.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • With no petrol to run dustbin trucks, rubbish is being burnt in the streets.
    — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 31 May 2026
  • There were cigarette burns in the leather couches and chairs.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 3 June 2026
  • What items can't be burned in Tennessee?
    — Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 29 Aug. 2025
  • That is more than $24 million in cap space burned in less than 24 hours.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 2 July 2026
  • One of the planes was impacted and started burning in the air.
    — Greg Wehner , Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 17 May 2026
  • Grandiose art sculptures, called ninots, are built and then burned in a jaw-dropping display of fire.
    — Nina Aquino, Travel + Leisure, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The map below details where the wildfires are burning in the state.
    — Bianca Harris, USA Today, 12 May 2026
  • The aircraft burned in 34 seconds.
    — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026
  • When the sun set, our windows burned in the apricot tones of the old sodium-vapor lamps.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 28 Apr. 2026
  • That home, which was built in 1951, burned in the Palisades fire.
    — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2026
  • But three months shy of its opening, the restaurant burned in the Palisades fire.
    — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Kya, who was also inside, suffered fatal burns in the blaze.
    — Nicole Acosta, PEOPLE, 14 May 2026
  • The reality is, many fires have burned in these mountains.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The Garden Fire is burning in an area of snags on very steep terrain.
    — Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Thousands of letters from detainees falsely accused by the regime are burned in a prison cell.
    — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Everything was designed to be less likely to burn in a wildfire.
    — Rick Montanez, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2026
  • This chart shows acres burned in the at this point in current year in the context of recent history.
    — Matt Stiles, CNN Money, 30 June 2026
  • At least five homes were burning in the rural town, which has a mix of freestanding and mobile homes.
    — Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • No major structures have burned in the fire and so far there are no reports of any livestock being killed.
    — Dillon Thomas, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Some 12 fires were burning in Utah, including four that were new.
    — Michael R. Sisak, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2026
  • If you were left longing for cash to burn in 2025, your time to try again is coming up soon.
    — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Apr. 2026

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