Below you will find example sentences with "burned down". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Burned Down in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: burned
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 21
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 24.2 words

Words in this phrase

burned down

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • burned can mean: Damaged or consumed by heat, fire, oxidation, or similar process. Frequent word
  • down can mean: From a higher position to a lower one; downwards. Very common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 8 start, 6 middle, 6 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

a mob burned down about 60 1× and they burned down their home 1× congolese soldiers burned down the mukunbi 1× demonstrators also burned down a railway 1× from a burned down building in 1× his home burned down in 2016 1× hit and burned down in the 1× immersion school burned down 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

in one case 2× it burned down 2× bill and jim 1× case in point 1× damage included bridges 1× demonstrators also burned 1×

Common sentence endings:

based chemaf resources 1× chimney caught fire 1× city of voronezh 1× completely burned down 1× down in 2016 1× down their home 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

home 6× town 3× destroyed 3× case 3× school 3× two 3× houses 2× caught 2× fire 2× few 2× 2016 2× depot 2×

Related phrases

shut down knocked down sat down breaks down stepped down slow down touched down doubled down sit down breaking down

Phrases around this combination

Just before it in the phrase index:

burn rate bureau chief burden countries bullet holes bull riding building solutions

Just after it in the phrase index:

burning man burst onto bus driver bus rapid bus route bus routes

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same ending:

shut down knocked down sat down breaks down stepped down slow down

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "burned down" has 2 words and usually appears near the start in these examples. The average sentence has 24.2 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a mob burned down about 60, and they burned down their home, home, town and destroyed stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with shut down, knocked down and sat down, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with burned down

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Hundreds of houses were completely burned down. (7 words)

Normal people hate the World Nobles, and they burned down their home. (12 words)

Next door, a roofing supplies store had burned down to its wooden beams. (13 words)

Longer example sentences

Case in point, a home valued at around $6 million on burned down after storm surge (saltwater) entered the home’s garage and their Tesla Model X Plaid caught fire and took the entire home down with it. (38 words)

Bill and Jim purchased a brew house from a burned down building in their home state of Wisconsin, which they removed themselves by digging through the rubble and using machinery to hoist the equipment out of the structure. (38 words)

Several constables and magistrates were badly beaten, the greater part of Road Town itself was burned down, and a large number of the plantation houses were destroyed, cane fields were burned and sugar mills destroyed. (35 words)

Example sentences (20)

Several constables and magistrates were badly beaten, the greater part of Road Town itself was burned down, and a large number of the plantation houses were destroyed, cane fields were burned and sugar mills destroyed.

Case in point, a home valued at around $6 million on burned down after storm surge (saltwater) entered the home’s garage and their Tesla Model X Plaid caught fire and took the entire home down with it.

Things seemed to quiet down for Whittaker for a few years — until his home burned down in 2016.

Bill and Jim purchased a brew house from a burned down building in their home state of Wisconsin, which they removed themselves by digging through the rubble and using machinery to hoist the equipment out of the structure.

By this time, the homestead had been sold to new owners who complained of harassment and, when their barn burned down, the cowboy became the sole suspect.

Damage included bridges and roads destroyed by authorities that aimed to stop Wagner’s march and a jet-fuel depot that was hit and burned down in the city of Voronezh.

Demonstrators also burned down a railway station on the outskirts of the capital, Islamabad, last night.

He also recounted how Kuki-Zo churches, and even his school which his parents ran for over two decades in Imphal West, was burned down by the mob in May this year.

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He went to the site of the community’s cultural institute, which burned down.

Hundreds of houses were completely burned down.

In 2009, a mob burned down about 60 homes and killed six people in the Gorja district in Punjab, after accusing them of insulting Islam.

In one case, Congolese soldiers burned down the Mukunbi settlement in the southern province of Lualaba in November 2016 to make way for cobalt and copper mining by Dubai-based Chemaf Resources.

In one case, resistance forces raided and burned down a junta-run general administration office, immigration office and some military offices in a town near the Thai border in Karen State.

It burned down a few weeks later due to an electrical fault, and Noye replaced it with a ten-bedroom mock-Tudor mansion.

It burned down in 1944, production was moved to the Manhattan Beach site,” Simpson explained.

It last burned down on October 16, 1834, after two workmen burnt some tally sticks, an ancient form of record, in a stove under the Lords chamber and the chimney caught fire.

It’s the town’s only theater, and during the year it’s been acting as an elementary school after the local immersion school burned down.

Mr Razvozhayev said the oil depot was attacked by “two enemy drones”, and tat four oil tanks burned down.

Next door, a roofing supplies store had burned down to its wooden beams.

Normal people hate the World Nobles, and they burned down their home.

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