How to Use burn through in a Sentence

burn through

verb
  • The fire burned through part of the garage and punched a hole in the roof.
    — Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Mar. 2026
  • But the world is burning through those supplies.
    — Matt Peterson, CNBC, 1 Apr. 2026
  • David Adelman had no choice but to burn through his timeouts.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 28 Mar. 2026
  • My kids already burned through their Rugrats phase.
    — Alex Shoemaker, Parents, 6 June 2026
  • Last year, those planes burned through about $50 million worth of jet fuel.
    — Austin Amestoy, NPR, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Drenched in sweat from the heat, Pickford would burn through work gloves and callous his hands.
    — Scott Wheeler, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Aerial footage showed large flames burning through dense brush on a hillside near a cul-de-sac of homes.
    — Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 15 June 2026
  • Waiting until the last few days of the month to burn through them is possible, but painful.
    — Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 June 2026
  • The beam can then burn through wires, damage sensors and cameras, or overheat battery packs.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 20 June 2026
  • Putin’s war has already burned through much of Russia’s once-large sovereign wealth fund.
    — Phillips Payson O’Brien, The Atlantic, 30 June 2026
  • This spring, a record-breaking drought has made those pumps run longer and harder - burning through even more fuel at a steep cost.
    — Drew Hawkins, NPR, 25 Apr. 2026
  • The hack works best for dry foods like chips, cereal and snacks — exactly the kind of stuff kids burn through every week.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Charlotte Observer, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The drier air allows fires to remain active for longer periods and burn through more hours of the night.
    — Mukesh Kumar, The Conversation, 17 June 2026
  • The team had burned through its annual AI budget in a matter of months.
    — Daniel Steele, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • The Weird and Wild part is, the Twins burned through their first challenge in the top of the first inning.
    — Jayson Stark, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Hyperscalers have burned through all their free cash flow from operations and are now issuing debt to fund the build-out.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 6 May 2026
  • Experience burning through innings when his team needed it on the biggest stage.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 30 May 2026
  • Preservationists were worried the flames could burn through pristine terrain unique to the region.
    — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2026
  • Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI coding tools budget in four months.
    — Rakesh Kumar, Fortune, 30 May 2026
  • But even with less recycling, these galaxies were burning through their gas at an astonishing rate.
    — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 4 May 2026
  • Modern wars, like Ukraine and now Iran, tend to burn through munitions at an industrial rate.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Meanwhile, the Iran war is burning through the very munitions that Ukraine needs to defend itself.
    — Morgan Chalfant, semafor.com, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The flames got inside, which is insulated, and slowly burned through 85 million pounds of food and goods inside for eight days.
    — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026
  • This has forced oil buyers to burn through stockpiles and take other emergency measures to manage global fuel shortages.
    — USA Today, 18 May 2026
  • As summer road trip season arrives and gas prices continue to swing, travelers do not have to burn through a full vacation budget to get out of town.
    — CBS News, 18 June 2026
  • The blaze had burned through 1,385 acres as of Tuesday afternoon, May 19.
    — Nathaniel Percy, Daily News, 19 May 2026
  • After all, OpenAI is burning through cash at an alarming rate, while also struggling to keep up.
    — Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 25 June 2026
  • The Santa Rosa Island fire burned through a third of the second-largest Channel island.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2026
  • One month into a new season, the Chicago Cubs are already burning through their pitching reserves at an alarming rate.
    — Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The company has already raised more than $180 billion from investors, and continues to burn through cash at a historic pace.
    — Ashley Capoot,lora Kolodny, CNBC, 19 May 2026

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