How to Use incinerate in a Sentence

incinerate

verb
  • The waste is incinerated in a large furnace.
  • Palm trees kept incinerating, and the fire seemed to be falling like rain.
    — Literary Hub, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Even if you are incinerated, your teeth will remain there.
    — Veronica Villafañe, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Likewise, drones came, and were incinerated while in the air.
    — Michael Loria, USA Today, 8 May 2026
  • Likewise, drones came, and were incinerated while in the air.
    — Mosheh Gains, NBC news, 7 May 2026
  • There, flames jumped the road and incinerated a line of cars fleeing as the fire destroyed their homes.
    — J. Weston Phippen, The Atlantic, 18 June 2017
  • Once the inner lining is filled, the bags are sent to be incinerated.
    — Dana Lee, Indianapolis Star, 22 Oct. 2017
  • The rest gets incinerated, is buried in landfills or piles up as litter on land and in the water.
    — Lisa Song, ProPublica, 19 Sep. 2023
  • But on a stormy evening five days later, a fire broke out on the top story, incinerating a classroom.
    — Perry Stein, Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Cruise ships exhale massive amounts of diesel emissions and incinerate garbage by the metric ton.
    — San Francisco Chronicle, 2 June 2018
  • Visitors can see the ovens used to incinerate the remains of those slaughtered.
    — Marc Santora, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2020
  • Television images showed horses and sheep incinerated on a farm that had stood in the path of the fire.
    — NBC News, 28 June 2019
  • Due to a lack of interest, Fields said the birds were incinerated.
    — Thomas Novelly, The Courier-Journal, 3 Sep. 2017
  • Let your pizza sit for a few seconds too long, and the flames will take the dough from lightly singed to fully incinerated.
    — Saahil Desai, The Atlantic, 6 Dec. 2024
  • The camp’s crematory worked round the clock to incinerate the hundreds who died every day, the court was told.
    — Christopher F. Schuetze, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2022
  • The camp’s crematory worked around the clock to incinerate the hundreds who died every day, the court was told.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Dec. 2022
  • The hiss of incinerating pages sounded like the final gasps of hundreds of dying souls.
    — Ramin Bahrani, New York Times, 10 May 2018
  • Yurovsky and his men then made a botched attempt to incinerate the bodies of Maria and Alexey.
    — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 1 July 2018
  • So many prisoners were killed that the crematoria on the edge of the camp couldn’t incinerate all the bodies.
    — Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2020
  • Rather than incinerate the birds or contribute to the city’s landfill, the birds will make good meals for needy Denverites.
    — Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 4 July 2019
  • But the book doesn’t incinerate when the fire hits the cover — instead, the flames graze the edges, floating away with no wreckage left behind.
    — Jaclyn Peiser, Washington Post, 24 May 2022
  • One kill involves Corey using a blowtorch to incinerate the face off of a marching band bully.
    — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The exchange works with a contractor to incinerate the needles.
    — Devin Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Apr. 2018
  • The blast unleashed a whirlwind of fire and force, incinerating thousands of people.
    — Mai Nishiyama, NBC news, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Most of it is in low-Earth orbit, and pieces of space junk can lose altitude over time and incinerate in the atmosphere.
    — Alice Gorman, CNN, 8 May 2021
  • There's even an incinerating toilet to handle waste.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The comic absurdity of taking delight in an art work that won’t be seen and that may even be incinerated was not lost on the artist.
    — Nadia Beard, The New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The notes taken during the conclave are supposed to be burned with the paper ballots, which are incinerated up to twice a day.
    — Maria Pasquini, People.com, 7 May 2025
  • No, the King of the Monsters unleashes his fiery breath on the man and incinerates him instead.
    — Steven Thrash, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Italians are frazzled as a summer of incinerating heat waves lingers and fear mounts over the return of hailstones the size of handballs.
    — Jason Horowitz, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023

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