How do you use Burnings in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Burnings meaning
plural of burning
Using Burnings
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of burning
- In the example corpus, burnings often appears in combinations such as: burnings and, book burnings, burnings in.
Context around Burnings
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 10 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Burnings
- In this selection, "burnings" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, book, koran, church and advances stand out and add context to how "burnings" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and the burnings advances have and and the burnings of several. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "burnings" sits close to words such as aberrant, abloh and absurdities, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with burnings
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He said that there is "evidence" that some of the fires were sparked by unauthorized burnings. (16 words)
Koran burnings are permitted in Sweden, Denmark and Norway, which all have for freedom of speech. (16 words)
For one of its most visually stunning scenes, "Origin" recollects the 1930s Nazi book burnings in Germany. (17 words)
Hirschfeld’s expansive library of sexual and gender studies was confiscated and later burned in the streets of the German capital, one of many book burnings in Nazi Germany that would decimate the records of this pioneering institute. (38 words)
Effective April 16 at 4 p.m., Bossier Parish residents may conduct private burnings of debris resulting from the April 12 severe thunderstorms, wind gusts, hail, flash flooding, and strong or long tracked tornado activity. (35 words)
It was the subject of book burnings in Bradford and protests in London before Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, declared a fatwa on the writer and forced him into hiding for nine years. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
For one of its most visually stunning scenes, "Origin" recollects the 1930s Nazi book burnings in Germany.
He said that there is "evidence" that some of the fires were sparked by unauthorized burnings.
Koran burnings are permitted in Sweden, Denmark and Norway, which all have for freedom of speech.
The recent desecration of the Koran in front of Muslim embassies in Denmark and Sweden has prompted the government to consider implementing legal restrictions on burnings.
Critics have said Sweden and Denmark, two of the most liberal countries in the world, should treat Koran burnings as a form of free speech protected by law.
The law was passed to target the phenomenon of Qur’an burnings and made desecrating holy books illegal.
Effective April 16 at 4 p.m., Bossier Parish residents may conduct private burnings of debris resulting from the April 12 severe thunderstorms, wind gusts, hail, flash flooding, and strong or long tracked tornado activity.
Matthews posted pictures and videos of the church burnings on Facebook, and discussed them with a friend online, prosecutors said.
The land begins to echo with the shouts of midnight burnings and the gunshots as they echo close to home.
There have been attacks on passenger buses, Christmas Day village burnings, and a string of ambushes on Mozambican soldiers trying to rein in the insurgency.
Hirschfeld’s expansive library of sexual and gender studies was confiscated and later burned in the streets of the German capital, one of many book burnings in Nazi Germany that would decimate the records of this pioneering institute.
It was the subject of book burnings in Bradford and protests in London before Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, declared a fatwa on the writer and forced him into hiding for nine years.
Massacres were carried out through mass burnings: 80,000 Armenians in 90 villages were burned in stables and haylofts.
That didn't make them immune to unconscious bias, which is currently a greater and more consistent threat to black people than cross burnings.
Ginsberg was trying to play the peacekeeper, Lieberman said, but as flag burnings and marches rocked Chicago’s streets, Lieberman was affected by aggressive policing.
And despite the dogs, the hosepipes and the burnings, advances have already been made towards giving the Negro his civil rights that would have been inconceivable when Louis Armstrong was a young man.
An indictment for seditious libel followed, for both publisher and author, while government agents followed Paine and instigated mobs, hate meetings, and burnings in effigy.
Burzum remained as a solo project until 1994, when Vikernes was arrested for the murder of Euronymous and the burnings of several churches in Norway.
In the 1990s, members of the scene were responsible for a spate of church burnings and murders.
In time, the species came to benefit from the indigenous peoples' periodic controlled burnings of the grasslands surrounding the Missouri to clear out old and dead growth.
Common combinations with burnings
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- burnings and 6×
- book burnings 4×
- burnings in 4×
- burnings of 4×
- church burnings 4×
- koran burnings 2×
- burnings as 2×
- mass burnings 2×
- the burnings 2×