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Example sentences for "will burn"

  • Potassium is so eminently combustible, that instead of requiring, like other metals, an elevation of temperature, it will burn rapidly in contact with water, even below the freezing point.

  • Ammoniacal gas, if it be mixed with atmospherical air, and a burning taper repeatedly plunged into it, will burn with a large flame of a peculiar yellow colour.

  • You will see that iron itself will burn in this gas, in the most rapid and brilliant manner.

  • Some bodies, however, will burn at a much lower temperature than others.

  • I wunna hae that old, old man To be my worldly make, But I will burn in fire strang, For my true lover's sake.

  • Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

  • It is said of Christ, his "fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and will gather his wheat into the garner, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

  • The illustration that follows in each instance is: "He will burn up the chaff in unquenchable fire.

  • Our Enemies press in on us, says Danton, but they shall not conquer us, "we will burn France to ashes rather, nous brulerons la France.

  • It is strange, under what impediments the fire of Jacobinism, like other such fires, will burn.

  • With what phases, to what extent, with what results it will burn off, Philosophy and Perspicacity conjecture in vain.

  • Terror itself, when once grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage; as frost sufficiently intense, according to Poet Milton, will burn.

  • By adding still more and more, it will burn with a very small flame, entirely blue, and with a singular musical sound.

  • It now assumes a yellow color, and great care must be used or it will burn.

  • Toast requires careful watching, or it will burn or be unevenly colored.

  • The chocolate melts quickly, and must be carefully watched, or it will burn.

  • This is removed as soon as the gas is lighted, so that it will burn with a blue flame.

  • If all right, it will burn with a blue flame; if not, it will burn with a yellow flame.

  • Gas escaping from any pipe will burn, but it will burn with a yellow flame.

  • Pour into a watch-glass a little sulphuret of carbon, and light it; hold in the flame a brush of steel-wire, and it will burn beautifully.

  • Cut a piece of cane about one inch long: set it upright in spirit of wine, with a small portion just above the surface: the spirit will then rise through the tube of the cane, which being lighted, will burn as a wick.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "will burn" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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