How to Use unburned in a Sentence

unburned

adjective
  • In the model, an unburned tree looks to the north, to the east, to the south, and the west.
    — Julia Brodsky, Forbes, 29 May 2021
  • The leaves can also be left unburned and used as potpourri that lasts for up to three months.
    — David Syrek, chicagotribune.com, 26 Feb. 2021
  • For soups or sauces, transferring the unburned portion to a new pot can be enough to save the dish.
    — Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 10 May 2026
  • Manus had to undergo skin grafts, using healthy donor skin from the unburned parts on her left thighs.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, People.com, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Two logs, one burned and one unburned, were found inside the Hustisford home.
    — Drew Dawson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 May 2022
  • The sound of revving engines was slowly building up around them; the smell of unburned fuel hung heavy in the air.
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Unburned fat then winds up deposited somewhere in a person's body, such as the belly or hips.
    — Dennis Thompson, chicagotribune.com, 28 July 2017
  • The heady aroma of unburned hydrocarbons and charred rubber is in the air.
    — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 22 June 2022
  • Yet each time firefighters put out a small blaze, that means unburned brush and timber is left to fuel future fires.
    — Joseph Serna, latimes.com, 14 June 2019
  • Neymar emerges unburned from a massive bonfire of money, like Khaleesi from the flames.
    — SI.com, 3 Aug. 2017
  • About one-third of the gasoline that goes into this sort of engine is spewed out, unburned, in an aerosol mixed with oil in the exhaust.
    — Ken Goe, OregonLive.com, 8 June 2018
  • The smoke ignited unburned fuel in the stack, causing visible flames to shoot out the stack.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 20 Nov. 2022
  • There’s evidence that some blow in from surrounding unburned areas or in smoke from the fire itself.
    — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 22 May 2024
  • Spring conditions are arriving, with the hills reborn in green in the unburned areas across the foothills to the east.
    — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Some trainees drip too much fuel, sloshing unburned liquids around and some are having trouble getting the thatch to catch.
    — Dennis Pillion | [email protected], al, 12 Feb. 2023
  • About 3% of the area that burned is unknown and 8% remained unburned or burned at very low intensity.
    — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 4 July 2022
  • In other cases, unlit flares allow all the methane that passes through them to vent, unburned, into the air.
    — Phil McKenna, ExpressNews.com, 23 Apr. 2020
  • The unburned tankers tried to extinguish the fire consuming their comrade—but then the tank exploded.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The team also found the DNA of three fire-loving fungi species in the soil, even in unburned areas.
    — Jake Buehler, Science | AAAS, 1 Nov. 2019
  • This happens because of fuel being mixed up with diesel; unburned fuel mixed with regular fuel.
    — January 9, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2026
  • That gave firefighters a chance to create firebreaks and do other work in an effort to prevent the blaze from reaching unburned areas.
    — New York Times, 22 July 2021
  • High heat and threats of thunderstorms through the weekend are challenging fire crews, with flare-ups in unburned areas producing new smoke and hot spots.
    — Camila Pedrosa, Sacramento Bee, 9 July 2024
  • And thanks to over a century of fire suppression practices, many forests now contain massive reserves of unburned fuel.
    — National Geographic, 12 Aug. 2019
  • The worst burns were on his hands and forearms, and — as with other burn patients — skin from unburned parts of his body had to be shaved off and grafted to replace skin that had burned away.
    — Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2021
  • These conditions would have allowed any smolders from the morning to spark again, igniting the now dryer, unburned fuel.
    — Brianna Sacks, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Firefighters were swarming into the region as the fire marched into neighborhoods and areas of dry, unburned brush in the foothills and rugged canyons.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2025
  • In Napa County cows munched, seemingly contented, in the few spots of unburned grass in their grazing fields.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2017
  • The second study, conducted in the Greater Boston area, looked at the nonmethane components of unburned gas from stoves.
    — Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2022
  • And in areas filled with unburned invasive grasses, the water table is shallower than in native forests and less absorptive.
    — Evan Bush, NBC news, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Moreover, strong winds cause fires to grow and spread more quickly, since the winds provide a steady supply of oxygen, carry sparks and even bend the flames closer to the unburned material ahead of the fire.
    — Ned Kleiner, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2024

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